Resources
Introduction | Museums | Videos | Web sites  

Teaching the History of Computing today is made immeasurably easier by the existence of numerous museums, videos, and websites. This part of our site links you to each of these types of resources.

In the case of museums, many have web sites that are useful for learning the history of computing, or as references for your students. We have attempted to identify a wide range of such websites by country and by our "top ten" sites for learning the history of computing. Please note that this does not constitute an endorsement of these sites, however, because of their organizational sponsorship we believe all the material to be accurate.

The last twenty years or so have resulted in numerous videos, both those made by public television and those of a commercial nature. Our site lists a number of videos made by or for public television. The earliest of these was the groundbreaking Machine That Changed the World, done by WGBH in Boston with the assistance of the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM). Another splendid effort, which contains excerpts from talks by many of the pioneers is Computer Pioneers and Pioneer Computers, done by The Computer Museum and the ACM. Of more recent interest are the two sets by Robert Cringely (PBS Video) Triumph of the Nerds and Nerds 2.01, which look at the development of personal computers and the Internet.

In addition to the websites maintained by museums, there are Web sites maintained by faculty in academic institutions, corporations, and individuals. We have listed some of them on the site and recommend that you visit them as well.