Computers: Software: History

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Computers: History (405)
Computers: Internet: History (104)
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.

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.

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.

SiliconUser
Articles about technology history with an Apple orientation.

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
Extensive oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.

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.

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