Every year the world becomes more and more computers and people who make their work to burn the green light on this technique: programmers, system administrators and other aytishnikov. Many believe that the red-bearded men, dressed in summer and winter in a knitted sweater, lived in parallel worlds, and only rarely come out to the subway to drink beer. Once a year, these people go back to your computer leave. We thought, and where they go? Unable to find a suitable answer, we decided to offer their own set of places where a computer can relax the soul, who lives in the body of sysadmin ...
So, if you are closely connected with the world of computers and order of tired of repetitive sunny beaches and ancient ruins, first go to California. You probably heard about the "Silicon Valley", where production is concentrated world of computers and software. There and start our journey gikovskoe.
To get started, visit the Computer History Museum Here you can learn the history of the development of computational tools from ancient times to the present. The museum exhibited a vast collection of computers that now seem terrible monsters, but more recently it was the perfect creation of brilliant scientists and engineers. For example, only here you can see live the first vacuum tube computer ENIAC, constructed by order of the Ministry of Defense in 1946. On the construction of this computer has gone more than 17 thousand vacuum tubes, and the weight of this monster was 27 tons. It is also interesting to look at the Apple I - the first creation of the modern giants of the industry. Apple I went on sale in mid-1976 for $ 666.66 (creator Steve arose nurtured a strong predilection for repeating figures). Perhaps the museum lacks only gallery of wax figures of the most famous geek. Perhaps the leadership does not want to spend money on permanent guard figures from Bill Gates haters Windows.
After visiting the museum, take a taxi and just ride on the Silicon Valley. It so happened that, since the late 30-ies of XX century are located around the Stanford University began to form high-tech companies, the first of which can be regarded as Hewlett-Packard, founded in 1939 by graduates of the University of William Hewlett (William Hewlett) and David Packard (David Packard). Today Silicon Valley is more than 7000 companies, including Intel, AMD, Apple Inc, Google, Cisco Systems, etc. It is home to nearly 2.5 million people, of whom 25% work in the sphere of high technologies. This is 625 thousand computer users! Others - certainly their wives and children.
If you do not want to fly to the U.S., and in Europe there are interesting places connected with the history of computers.
In Berlin, you can visit the German Technical Museum (Technik Museum Berlin-Kreuzberg which is recreated by its author, Konrad Zuse (Konrad Zuse) electromechanical computer "Z1". Unfortunately, the original was built in 1938, was destroyed during the war. And if you suddenly find yourself in Munich, the German Museum can see a perfect creation of Konrad Zuse - The
computer "Z3", which is considered the first workable and freely programmable computer in the world: his "competitors" - Mark I and ENIAC appeared after 1943. But this, unfortunately, copy, recreated by the author in 1960. Original, too, did not survive the world II.
In Paris, should visit the parish church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont (Saint-E'tienne-du-Mont), resting place of the French physicist and mathematician Blaise Pascal, because surely you have studied named in his honor by the programming language Pascal. By resting place of Pascal can be traditionally put a few flowers. Programmers can also entrust the dice memory or disk with the distribution of Pascal. If you do not have enough strength to reach the church, then at least you are sure to visit the Louvre, and there can kneel before the statue of Blaise Pascal.
The very same creator of Pascal Niklaus Wirth (Niklaus Wirth) now lives in Zurich, Switzerland. Stroll through the streets of this city and perhaps you are lucky enough to meet the living legend from the world of programming. And if not, then visit at least located in Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where Professor Niklaus Wirth is from 1968.
Well, if you do not want to bother with long visas, but your soul is clamoring for familiarizing with the history of the computer world, immediately go to the Moscow Polytechnical Museum They will tell you in detail about the history of Soviet computers, as there is only preserved in our country, serving lamp computers "Ural", which solved the problem of calculating the trajectories of missiles at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Finally you can satisfy nostalgic feelings by visiting the Museum of Soviet slot There you will play the familiar childhood game Battleship, "" basketball "and many others. Unfortunately, the museum takes nostalgic geeks only on Wednesdays from 19.30 on the provisional application.
So, if you are closely connected with the world of computers and order of tired of repetitive sunny beaches and ancient ruins, first go to California. You probably heard about the "Silicon Valley", where production is concentrated world of computers and software. There and start our journey gikovskoe.
To get started, visit the Computer History Museum Here you can learn the history of the development of computational tools from ancient times to the present. The museum exhibited a vast collection of computers that now seem terrible monsters, but more recently it was the perfect creation of brilliant scientists and engineers. For example, only here you can see live the first vacuum tube computer ENIAC, constructed by order of the Ministry of Defense in 1946. On the construction of this computer has gone more than 17 thousand vacuum tubes, and the weight of this monster was 27 tons. It is also interesting to look at the Apple I - the first creation of the modern giants of the industry. Apple I went on sale in mid-1976 for $ 666.66 (creator Steve arose nurtured a strong predilection for repeating figures). Perhaps the museum lacks only gallery of wax figures of the most famous geek. Perhaps the leadership does not want to spend money on permanent guard figures from Bill Gates haters Windows. After visiting the museum, take a taxi and just ride on the Silicon Valley. It so happened that, since the late 30-ies of XX century are located around the Stanford University began to form high-tech companies, the first of which can be regarded as Hewlett-Packard, founded in 1939 by graduates of the University of William Hewlett (William Hewlett) and David Packard (David Packard). Today Silicon Valley is more than 7000 companies, including Intel, AMD, Apple Inc, Google, Cisco Systems, etc. It is home to nearly 2.5 million people, of whom 25% work in the sphere of high technologies. This is 625 thousand computer users! Others - certainly their wives and children. If you do not want to fly to the U.S., and in Europe there are interesting places connected with the history of computers.
In Berlin, you can visit the German Technical Museum (Technik Museum Berlin-Kreuzberg which is recreated by its author, Konrad Zuse (Konrad Zuse) electromechanical computer "Z1". Unfortunately, the original was built in 1938, was destroyed during the war. And if you suddenly find yourself in Munich, the German Museum can see a perfect creation of Konrad Zuse - The
computer "Z3", which is considered the first workable and freely programmable computer in the world: his "competitors" - Mark I and ENIAC appeared after 1943. But this, unfortunately, copy, recreated by the author in 1960. Original, too, did not survive the world II. In Paris, should visit the parish church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont (Saint-E'tienne-du-Mont), resting place of the French physicist and mathematician Blaise Pascal, because surely you have studied named in his honor by the programming language Pascal. By resting place of Pascal can be traditionally put a few flowers. Programmers can also entrust the dice memory or disk with the distribution of Pascal. If you do not have enough strength to reach the church, then at least you are sure to visit the Louvre, and there can kneel before the statue of Blaise Pascal.
The very same creator of Pascal Niklaus Wirth (Niklaus Wirth) now lives in Zurich, Switzerland. Stroll through the streets of this city and perhaps you are lucky enough to meet the living legend from the world of programming. And if not, then visit at least located in Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where Professor Niklaus Wirth is from 1968. Well, if you do not want to bother with long visas, but your soul is clamoring for familiarizing with the history of the computer world, immediately go to the Moscow Polytechnical Museum They will tell you in detail about the history of Soviet computers, as there is only preserved in our country, serving lamp computers "Ural", which solved the problem of calculating the trajectories of missiles at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Finally you can satisfy nostalgic feelings by visiting the Museum of Soviet slot There you will play the familiar childhood game Battleship, "" basketball "and many others. Unfortunately, the museum takes nostalgic geeks only on Wednesdays from 19.30 on the provisional application.