History at Your Favorite Things
History Related Forums at Your Favorite Things: Computers and Internet - Discussions pertaining to hardware, software, internet, web design, internet, programming and more.Computer Software - From operating systems to information management applications. Anti Virus programs to Video Editing. Share your views on the software you are using or ask questions about software you are looking to buy.
See also:
Software History Center
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.
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 - 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]
Amazon.com Widgets
- History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who.
