A retro computer museum in Mariupol beloved by children was attacked by Russia

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Nearly two decades ago, Dmitriy Cherepanov started a collection of retro computers in Mariupol, Ukraine, that grew into an internationally-known assemblage of historic machines, housed in a private museum he called IT 8-bit.

Russia's campaign to take over his city in southeast Ukraine has killed at least 2,000 civilians, destroyed most of the city's homes and turned Cherepanov's beloved computer museum into rubble.

"I'm very upset," Cherepanov, 45, told NPR. "It's been a hobby of my life."

IT 8-bit held more than 120 examples of computer technology and game consoles from the last century. Cherepanov estimates that up to 1,500 people visited the free museum every year before he closed it at the start of the pandemic.

Cherepanov knows the small building housing the museum was bombed, like many other structures in the city, sometime after March 15. He believes that any machines that weren't destroyed by the blast were likely taken, given the desperate circumstances in the city now.