Yeah same here, I also always jokingly wondered why the CS curriculum doesn’t include history of CS, similar to history of wizardry in Harry Potter but the older I get, the more i think this would be a reasonable idea, if it would discuss what we tried and what did and didn’t work.
Or worked until we needed *
Totally endorse this idea.
Also, I'd also like to try using a card reader and puncher. I find punched tape even more fascinating.
My university offered history of mathematics and computer science as a humanities elective.