- Books about History
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- Computers: History (385)
- Computers: Internet: History (103)
- Computers: Software: Abandonware (21)
- Computers: Systems: Apple: History (11)
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» 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.
» 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.
» 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]