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By ceruzzi , 2 January 2009

New Year Thoughts

zuneBy now you've all heard about the Microsoft Zune bug that was caused by its software having difficulty dealing with a leap year. On at least one other post I talked about the problems the Gregorian calendar gives computer programmers (actually it was Church officials, which is sort of the same thing).

By ceruzzi , 23 July 2008

Music

All three of my kids have I-Pods. One of them has a model that holds 10,000 songs. If each song were, on average, about three minutes long, it would two months to get through them all, if you listened to the gadget for 8 hours a day. What’s the point?

 

By ceruzzi , 29 April 2009

Geocities

geocities-logo1By now you have probably heard that Yahoo! is shutting down its Geocities site. There has been a lot of coverage in the press about this, usually relating to two themes. The first is that it illustrates the worst of the dot.com bubble, as Yahoo!

By mols , 10 March 2009

Computers in Moving Pictures, Then and Now

pdsleft_imgAs part of a search for material for an animation for the local popular science festival, I went back looking out for videos and films usable for computing history. Returning, hopeful, to the on-line prelinger Internet Archive, three videos emerged out, one was On Guard!

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Welcome from the Board Chair

Aaron Sylvan
Aaron Sylvan

Mission & Values

Our mission is to preserve and share the untold stories of the computing industry.

We aim to identify overlooked contributors, trace the genealogy of ideas, and capture living memory into a structured, searchable record.

Operating Plan (for 2026)

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Background of the IT History Society

IT History Society, Inc. traces its organizational heritage to 1977. Over time, the organization's identity and programs have evolved to meet the changing needs of the IT history community—first by supporting scholarship and archival preservation, later by expanding outreach and collaboration, and more recently by experimenting with large-scale online reference resources. As we enter the AI era, we are again refining our mission and the ways we engage members and the public.

Curation Committee

In 2026, IT History Society, Inc. intends to form a small Database Curation Committee to help guide a structured review of the Society’s database and its long-term role in our evolving mission.

Honor Roll Committee

In 2026, IT History Society, Inc. intends to reconstitute the Honor Roll Committee to guide the identification, research, and recognition of individuals whose contributions to information technology have been historically significant, but are sometimes under-documented, misunderstood, or overlooked.

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Thank you

Thank you for your generous contribution!

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Wishlist

Version 2.9

Target Date: March 21, 2018

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By admin , 9 December 2013

Fire Damages Internet Archive Scanning Center

Fire in the Scanning CenterThere was a fire at the Internet Archive’s San Francisco scanning center recently. The good news is that no one was hurt and no data was lost. Their main building wasn't affected except for damage to one electrical run which caused them to lose power to some servers for a while.

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