{"id":422,"date":"2025-11-05T23:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/?p=422"},"modified":"2025-11-05T23:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:17:38","slug":"field-trips-computer-history-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/11\/05\/field-trips-computer-history-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Trips \u2013 Computer History Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My impression of the Computer History Museum was that it was way bigger and more interactive than I expected. The exhibits showed how computers changed from these huge machines that filled entire rooms to personal devices we use everyday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I learned about the ENIAC and other early computers that we didn&#8217;t really talk about in class, especially how much manual work people had to do to program them using switches and punch cards. Like you couldn&#8217;t just type code, you had to physically flip switches and feed cards into the machine which seems crazy now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My favorite thing was probably the original Apple I computer because it showed how creativity and simple design ideas can lead to huge technological changes. It&#8217;s just this basic circuit board but it basically started the whole personal computer revolution. It made me think about how interaction design connects technology and people in meaningful ways &#8211; like it&#8217;s not just about making something work, it&#8217;s about making it usable for regular people not just engineers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was also surprised by how many failed projects and dead-end technologies there were. Not everything became successful even if it was innovative at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My impression of the Computer History Museum was that it was way bigger and more interactive than I expected. The exhibits showed how computers changed from these huge machines that filled entire rooms to personal devices we use everyday. I learned about the ENIAC and other early computers that we didn&#8217;t really talk about in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}