History

• Computers: History  (385)
• Computers: Internet: History  (103)
• Computers: Software: Abandonware  (21)
• Computers: Systems: Apple: History  (11)

Software History Center :

  - History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who.
Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend :

- Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.
Borud :

- History of search engine vendor FAST Search & Transfer, and of a predecessor company founded by an early technical employee.
CORBA history :

- Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers.
Dan Bricklin's History Section :

- By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc
DBMS Magazne Interview - August 1995 :

- Founder Mitchell Kertzman discusses the history of Powersoft.
The Hard Work of Software History :

- Paper on the challenges and techniques of preserving software history, by a Stanford University curator. [PDF]
History of Computing: Software Index :

- Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.
The History of Software Patents :

- A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.
IBM DB2's 25th Anniversary: Birth Of An Accidental Empire :

- Information Week article on relational DBMS history. Discusses IBM internal politics, and the cooperation between IBM and UC Berkeley researchers.
Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection :

- History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.
Outliners & Programming :

- Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products.
PostgreSQL History Document :

- Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems.
PowerBuilder History :

- Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools.
Powersoft History :

- Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement.
The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval :

- Essay on the history of information retrieval and search technologies, written before the World Wide Web took off.
Software Memories :

- Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers.
Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History :

- Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems
System R History :

- Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.
The Technology and Business of ObjectStore :

- Detailed two-part history of Object Design, maker of object-oriented database management system ObjectStore.
Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree :

- Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines.
Usenet Software: History and Sources :

- Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.
The Vintage Mac Museum :

- Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.
Visicorp 1978-84 :

- A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp. [PDF]