As guests explore EPCOT Center in these early days, they may notice a rather striking pavilion building to their right of The Land. It is a structure whose layered roof resembles a connected stack of circuit boards. The bottommost layer is supported with Brutalist buttresses, as the green layers build upwards towards a large black computer chip that sits atop the pile. Beneath that roof and behind the green buttresses are the main white walls of the building, and a circuitry-inspired sign out front of the building that reads The Database, presented by Texas Instruments. Caught by the eye-catching architecture and the sign, guests head forward into the main entrance and enter the queue for the pavilion’s main ride: The Compu-Tour.

After guests disembark from their digital tour, they’ll head down a hallway that curves slightly to their right. Posters and displays lining the hallway showcase major events and figures from the history of computer development (including a mention of Texas Instruments’s TI-99/4A, one of the first 16-bit home computers). The hallway empties out into a large room, which serves as the home of the Cyber Showcase. This interactive area can be accessed either as a post-ride experience or by going in through the pavilion’s side entrance, which also doubles as the pavilion’s main exit. Most guests will only have the ride and this interactive area as their main experiences. However, employees of Texas Instruments and invited guests will gain access to a special hallway hidden away from most guests. Between the Compu-Tour’s queue and the Cyber Showcase is an elevator and stairway, leading up the pavilion’s tower to a special Sponsor's Lounge which serves as a perk for Texas Instruments in exchange for their sponsorship.

All in all, The Database serves as a marvelous pavilion at EPCOT Center, shedding a light on the new and exciting world of computers in a way that any guests to the park can enjoy.

Of course, as time marches on, the computer becomes more familiar and more accessible to the public. They better understand what it is, and learning about its components and inner workings just don't excite them as much anymore. As the 1990s arrive and the call is made for updating EPCOT Center into a more "hip" and "modern" park for guests, Imagineers turn their eye to an incredible new development: the World Wide Web. It will require a new sponsor now that Texas Instruments is more associated with calculators in the public's mind than any of their other computing efforts...