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bishop dubourg high school
from jack dorsey, twitter, square posted in technology by tacopolis
Bishop DuBourg High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in St. Louis, Missouri. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis.
Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter and developer of the Square mobile device (ya know, that square thing on the cell phone that the people in the food trucks use), graduated from Bishop DuBourg in 1995.
museum of modern human progress
from computers, communications posted in technology by tacopolis
Formerly known as the American Computer Museum, the Museum of Modern Human Progress was founded in May 1990 by Barbara and George Keremedjiev as a non-profit organization.
The museum is currently the oldest extant museum dedicated to the history of computers in the world (The Computer Museum in Boston opened first, but closed in 1999).
Artifacts at the museum include early IBM computers, a Burroughs 205, an Apple 1 (donated by Steve Wozniak), an antikythera mechanism 1st century replica, and more.