History

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• Computers: History  (356)
• Computers: Internet: History  (97)
• Computers: Software: Abandonware  (24)
• 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..

  Cincom Timeline - Official timeline-history of database pioneer Cincom..

  CORBA history - Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers..

  Dan Bricklin's History Section - By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc.

  DataDirect History - Official company history of the ODBC/JDBC/data connectivity pioneer variously known as Pioneer Software, Q+E Software, and DataDirect..

  Distributed 'Stars' coming out - 1989 Software Magazine article giving dates for the introduction of distributed database management systems products from IBM, Ingres, Tandem, and others..

  Drupal Nation: Software to Power the Left - Open-source content management system Drupal's roots in the 2004 Howard Dean Presidential campaign. Based on a Master's thesis..

  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..

  Lannigan.org - Site with history of several software companies (InSystems, Powersoft, Covalent)..

  The Origins of Today's OLAP Products - History of analytic software products, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, which the author regards as precursors to modern OLAP..

  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..

  Teradata History - Official summary company history of Teradata..

  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].

  Xconomy: The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of - Article about the history of Erwise, a Finnish project that anticipated the Mosaic browser..

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