Ukraine has its largest computer museum called the 8-bit Club. But unfortunately the museum had to be damaged by the effects of the war and destroyed during the siege of the city of Mariupol, Ukraine.
This was known after the owner Dmitry Cherepanov shared the state of the 8-bit Club museum on his Facebook account.
"The Mariupol Computer Museum is no more, the rest of the collection I have collected over the past 15 years are just pieces of memories on the museum's FB page, website and radio station," Cherepanov was quoted as saying by Engadget.
The 8-bit Club collection includes more than 500 pieces of computer history, with items dating back to the 1950s. One of the media sites Gizmodo also visited the museum in 2018, describing it at the time as one of the largest and coolest collections from the Soviet era of computers that can be found anywhere in the world.
Cherepanov took over a decade to assemble and have more PCs on display at the 8-bit Club. What makes the destruction of the museum even sadder is that it documents the shared history between the Ukrainians and Russians.
But fortunately Cherepanov survived, although like many other Mariupol residents he had lost his home.
Since the start of the war, nearly 10 million people have fled as a result of the fastest -growing war crisis since the second world war.