Our Mission

THE MISSION OF THE IT HISTORY SOCIETY is 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.

Boy Scouts

The Boy Scouts of America
added a merit badge
on computers in 1967.

Projects we support and encourage include historical research, archival acquisitions, archival processing, historical writing, writing of educational material, public lectures, workshops, conferences, educational courses, short stories, novels, films, plays, exhibits, museums, web pages, and other activities that feature IT history as a topic.

IT history includes the creation of this technology and the underlying science; its use; its impact on people, society, and the world; and the people and institutions involved, from antiquity to the present day.