Computer History Museum
Museum in Mountain View
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February 19 2025 | CHM appointed Marc Etkind, a former NASA Communications Leader, as its next President and Chief Executive Officer. |
January 19 2023 | The Apple Lisa source code was released to the public. |
March 2018 | Dan'l Lewin, a former technology executive, replaced John Hollar as CEO. |
January 28 2017 | The museum launched the interactive exhibit 'Make Software: Change the World!', designed for middle schoolers and up, featuring multimedia displays and a software lab exploring coding. |
October 21 2014 | The Xerox Alto's source code was released to the public. |
January 2011 | CHM reopened after a two-year, $19 million renovation. |
January 13 2011 | The Computer History Museum opened its comprehensive exhibit 'Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing', covering computing history from the abacus to the Internet across 20 galleries. |
2010 | The museum began collecting source code of significant software, starting with Apple's MacPaint 1.3, which was made publicly downloadable. |
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