The Computer History Museum is a big museum in Mountain View, California. It is full of old computers, robots, and cool machines that show how computers changed from giant room-sized machines into the tiny phones and tablets we use today. The museum has more than 90,000 objects inside!
The museum has all kinds of amazing things to look at and play with. You can see one of the very first video games ever made, called Spacewar!, which was created in 1962. There are huge old computers that used to fill entire rooms but were not as powerful as a phone is today. You can also see Google’s very first computer servers, which were built on wooden boards instead of fancy metal cases!
The museum started way back in 1975 in a tiny coat closet at a computer company in Massachusetts! As people donated more and more old computers, it grew bigger and bigger. In 2002, the museum moved to California into a big building that used to be the headquarters of a company called Silicon Graphics, which helped make special effects for movies. The building is 120,000 square feet, which is about the size of two football fields.
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