Computers Software History

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• Computers: History  (384)
• Computers: Internet: History  (105)
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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]