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History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who.www.softwarehistory.org
The History of Software Patents
A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.
www.bitlaw.com
Usenet Software: History and Sources
Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.
www.faqs.org
History of Computing: Software Index
Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.
www.thocp.net
A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp.
www.anderson.ucla.edu
Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History
Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems
www.stottlerhenke.com
Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.
www.d4.dion.ne.jp
Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems.
archives.postgresql.org
Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers.
www.softwarememories.com
Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree
Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines.
www.tincat-group.com
Dan Bricklin's History Section
By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc
www.bricklin.com
Extensive oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.
www.mcjones.org
Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection
History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.
www.computerhistory.org
Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers.
acmqueue.com
Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend
Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.
web.onetel.net.uk