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The IT History Society Membership Grows Beyond
350 Members
San Francisco, CA, June 4, 2008 – The
IT History Society (www.IThistory.org) has grown to more than
350 members since the announcement of its redirection in Washington
DC at its launch on October 21, 2007. The IT History Society,
formerly known as the Charles Babbage Foundation, was created
with the goal of enhancing and expanding works concerning the
history of Information Technology, and to demonstrating the value
of IT history to the understanding and improvement of our world.
“We are pleased with the reception from the information
technology sector,” said Jeffery D. Stein, Chairman of
the Board. “We see this increase in membership as a validation
that our mission is to preserve the history of the information
technology. This technology has had and continues to be a shaping
force on the modern world, and understanding its past will help
us to improve its present and future uses.”
Some of the added members to the growing rooster of the IT History
Society are ACM History Committee, Applied Materials, Computer
Conservation Society, Deutsches Museum, Hewlett Packard, IBM,
INPUT, INTEL, The Internet Archive, Microsoft, the Smithsonian
Institution, and Symantec are among a few.
Early members include more than 130 historians and archivists,
as well as institutions including the Center for Technology Innovation,
Charles Babbage Institute, Computer History Museum, IEEE History
Center, Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists, and the U.K.
National Archive for the History of Computing.
The IT History Society assists in the collaboration of like-minded
institutions and individuals to expand the reach of historical
and archival activities while at the same time communicating
to the private sector the value of preserving their history and
heritage for generations to come.
About ITHS
The IT History Society exists to enhance and expand works concerning
the history of Information Technology and to demonstrate the
value of IT history to the understanding and improvement of our
present and future world.
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Online: http://www.IThistory.org
For more information, please contact Jeffery Stein
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