Software History
Below are some useful links about History on Software:
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- Computers: History (384)
- Computers: Internet: History (105)
- Computers: Software: Abandonware (21)
- Computers: Systems: Apple: History (11)
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 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. |
| 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 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. |
| 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] |