Computers - Software - History
Look up History in dictionary
history
n 1: the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the
school's history"
2: a record or narrative description of past events; "a history
of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to
kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" [syn:
{history}, {account}, {chronicle}, {story}]
3: the discipline that records and interprets past events
involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history";
"history takes the long view"
4: the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from
the past to the present and even into the future; "all of
human history"
5: all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a
body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the
beginning of history"
See also:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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]
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