Mountain View Field Trip!

On Friday, my CST 104 class took a trip to Mountain View, a town that is home to the Computer History Museum, and the world famous Googleplex. When we arrived to the Computer History museum, we were immediately entertained with an explanation and visual display of The Babbage Engine. This was very interesting, and kept my attention while the employees of the museum shared their knowledge of the history of The Babbage Engine and cranked it a few times so that every student could see what it really did. After the Babbage Engine presentation, we were free to roam around the museum on our own. There were old computers, old video games, anything that you could think of that was technology prone was there. It was so interesting to see all of what old computers really used to look and function like. After the museum, we ate lunch and took off to the Googleplex. This place was amazing, and was it was so interesting to see how many people put work into making Google world-wide known. There were cafes everywhere and friendly people around every corner. What I found that was really cool about the Googleplex was that it seemed as though they were just trying to make the work place a fun and interesting, so that their employees actually wanted to go to work, and they can enjoy going to work. Overall, this field trip was awesome, and it really opened my mind to something I didn't know before.