{"id":109604,"date":"2024-04-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=109604"},"modified":"2024-04-02T07:12:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T14:12:04","slug":"20240402-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20240402-00\/?p=109604","title":{"rendered":"The history of computing, as told by the hallways of Microsoft Building 41"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Employees Are Hooked on the Company’s Training Videos<\/a> (WSJ paywall). But really, what I want to call attention to is the video that plays even if you don’t have a subscription: I can tell that the scene was filmed on the fourth floor of Building 41.<\/p>\n

Each of the six floors of Building 41 is themed after a stage in the development of computing.<\/p>\n

First floor: Abacus (ca. 2700 BCE).<\/p>\n

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Second floor: Jacquard loom card (1804).<\/p>\n

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Third floor: Hollerith punch card (1890).<\/p>\n

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Fourth floor: Circuit board (1960).<\/p>\n

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Fifth floor: Social media and hashtags (2009).<\/p>\n

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Sixth floor: Cloud computing racks (2018).<\/p>\n

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A walk through history, in the form of wall textures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-109604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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