User:Jpbowen/sandbox/VMoC
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The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC) is an eclectic collection of links and online resources concerning the history of computers and computer science.[2][3][1] It includes links to other related museums, both real and virtual, around the world, as well as having its own virtual galleries of information. A particular feature is the early computing pioneer Alan Turing, among others.[1]
Available in | English |
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Founded | 1 June 1995 (1995-06-01) |
Headquarters | University of Oxford (in 1995), , |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of locations | Mirror sites around the world |
Area served | Worldwide |
Owner | International Council of Museums (ICOM) |
Created by | Jonathan Bowen |
Founder(s) | Oxford University Computing Laboratory |
Editors | Jonathan Bowen, Andrew Hodges |
Key people | Jonathan Bowen |
Industry | Museums |
Services | Virtual museum |
Parent | Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) |
URL | museums.fandom.com |
Commercial | No |
Launched | 2 June 1995; 28 years ago (1995-06-02) |
Current status | Archival site hosted by MuseumsWiki |
This virtual museum was founded by Jonathan Bowen on 1 June 1995 (announced on 2 June 1995[4]), originally at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom.[5] It has been supported by Museophile Limited[6] and also forms part of the Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp), supported by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).[7] VMoC was subsequently hosted at the University of Reading and London South Bank University, and was mirrored around the world as part of VLmp. It is now available as a wiki on the MuseumsWiki, hosted on Fandom (formerly Wikia).[8]
The resource has been widely cited in books[9] and academic publications.[10] It was created tp provide information on computer history[11] and act as an educational resource.[12] It has hosted information on history of computing events.[13] The resource has been described internationally, including in Russian.[14]