World-first museum of its kind opened during the “ITSM Horizon 2022” congress June 2022. More than 80 years after the birth of the Z3, Konrad Zuse’s first computer, international IT Service Management (ITSM) will boast its first digital museum. The House of IT(SM) History, the name alludes to the “Haus der Geschichte” (House of German History) in Bonn. It is to be opened this year.
It will offer a virtual tour through the development of IT and of IT services with a host of vintage images, recordings, and documents from thick ring binders and stacks of paper to process documentations, to the floppy disk, to data-base solutions and the virtual world of avatars.
Visitors will be able to move through the exhibition by using a time machine. Choose the desired year, one click, and off you go through virtual hallways and turns into the respective room with its exhibits, images, videos, and explanations. This world-first IT museum of its kind will be inaugurated during the online congress “ITSM Horizon”, which will be held for the third time on September 28th and 29th this year.
Since 2020, this has been hosted by the Scholderer GmbH, a company specialized in IT consultancy and Service Level Agreement (SLA). The idea for the House of IT History originated with Dr Robert Scholderer, the company’s founder and CEO. “In the past two years, which were dominated by the Corona pandemic, we made enormous progress with regard to digitalization and virtualization, and I hence found it important to look back at the roots”, he says about his idea.
“And that’s when I noticed that the way most companies handled IT management until only a few years ago now really belongs in a museum,” adds Scholderer.