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| Available in | English |
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| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | University of Oxford (in 1994), Oxford , United Kingdom |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Created by | Jonathan Bowen |
| Founder(s) | Jonathan Bowen |
| Industry | Museums |
| Services | Virtual museum |
| Parent | Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) |
| Website | museums.fandom.com |
| Launched | 1994 |
| Current status | Hosted by MuseumsWiki |
The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC) is an eclectic collection of links and online resources concerning the history of computers and computer science.[1][2] 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.[3]
This virtual museum was founded by Jonathan Bowen on 1 June 1995, originally at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom .[4] It has been supported by Museophile Limited[5] and also forms part of the Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp), supported by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).[6] 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).[7]
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Categories: [Computing websites]