the entire directory only in Software/History

See also:

• Computers: History (336)
• Computers: Internet: History (87)
• Computers: Software: Abandonware (23)
• Computers: Systems: Apple: History (9)

• Software History Center - History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who.
• Astonishments in the history of version control - Blog post with historical highlights in software version control.
• 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
• 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.
• Enterprise Software History - Capsule histories of application software companies in sectors such as ERP, MRP, and CRM. Wiki format.
• ExIngres - Website that facilitates contact with former employees of Ingres Corporation.
• History of Computing: Software Index - Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• Teradata History - Official summary company history of Teradata.
• The History of Software Patents - A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.
• The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval - Essay on the history of information retrieval and search technologies, written before the World Wide Web took off.
• The Technology and Business of ObjectStore - Detailed two-part history of Object Design, maker of object-oriented database management system ObjectStore.
• The Vintage Mac Museum - Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.
• 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.
• 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.

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