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• Computers: History  (351)
• Computers: Internet: History  (96)
• Computers: Software: Abandonware  (26)
• Computers: Systems: Apple: History  (10)

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 Visical.

DataDirect History - - Official company history of the ODBC/JDBC/data connectivity pioneer variously known as Pioneer Software, Q+E Software, and DataDirect.

Distributed 'Stars' coming out - - 1989 Software Magazine article giving dates for the introduction of distributed database management systems products from IBM, Ingres, Tandem, and others.

Drupal Nation: Software to Power the Left - - Open-source content management system Drupal's roots in the 2004 Howard Dean Presidential campaign. Based on a Master's thesis.

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.

Lannigan.org - - Site with history of several software companies (InSystems, Powersoft, Covalent).

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 system.

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.

Xconomy: The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of - - Article about the history of Erwise, a Finnish project that anticipated the Mosaic browser.