I had been careful about not mixing my personal opinions and events like the war in Ukraine or the invasion of Russia, but unfortunately this is an interest for gaming news as gaming history preservation has been hitting the news.

But instead of Nintendo greedily DMCA-ing people and entities for content that are more than 2 decades old, we got one of many tragedies happening in Ukraine.

As if the mentioned problems wasn’t enough, The Twitter account of Software & Computer Musem located at Ukraine confirmed that a bomb destroyed the Mariupol Computer Museum which was featured on Polygon at 2019.

The mere destruction of people's property is sad itself, but to add more to the outrage of what’s going on in Ukraine from collectibles and gaming history perspective, is that the museum housed 500 pieces of computer history spanning decades that were collected since the early nineties and included recent hardware and software of the 2000’s.

Looking at the Software & Computer Museum timeline, you can immediately confirm that as early as 26 of February, there were warnings that Russians were attacking the area.

Gladly, it was confirmed that the owner, Dmitry Cherepanov, is currently at a safe area but unfortunately he also lost his home and with this, he opened a fundraising via Paypal not only for raise money to carry on himself but other people that are struggling while keeping away from the war.