In 2021, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee history professor Thomas Haigh began teaching a course on the history of computers.  

Haigh, the coauthor of a book on the subject published around that same time noticed that many classic histories of computing from the 1990s assumed that readers would have firsthand knowledge of technology from around that era—desktop PCs and Macs, early game consoles, and the once-ubiquitous floppy disk. But for many of his students, that equipment was obsolete before they were born. While it might make millennials grimace, Windows 95 and Nintendo 64’s GoldenEye 007 are now firmly in the purview of the history department. 

“With today’s undergraduates, they’re just........

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