See also:

• Computers: History  (384)
• Computers: Internet: History  (105)
• Computers: Software: Abandonware  (21)
• Computers: Systems: Apple: History  (11)

Software History Center     www.softwarehistory.org 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  web.onetel.net.uk/%7Ehibou/Beer%20and%20Nappies.html Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.

Borud  blog.borud.no/2008_01_01_archive.html History of search engine vendor FAST Search & Transfer, and of a predecessor company founded by an early technical employee.

Cincom Timeline  cincom.com/us/eng/cincom/about-cincom/history-culture/industry-first/i… Official timeline-history of database pioneer Cincom.

CORBA history  acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=396&page=1 Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers.

Dan Bricklin's History Section  www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc

DBMS Magazne Interview - August 1995  www.dbmsmag.com/int9508.html Founder Mitchell Kertzman discusses the history of Powersoft.

The Hard Work of Software History  www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/backissuesvol2no/lowood.PDF Paper on the challenges and techniques of preserving software history, by a Stanford University curator. [PDF]

History of Computing: Software Index  www.thocp.net/software/software.htm Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.

The History of Software Patents  www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.

IBM DB2's 25th Anniversary: Birth Of An Accidental Empire  www.informationweek.com/news/software/database_apps/showArticle.jhtml?… 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  www.computerhistory.org/corphist/index.php History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.

The Origins of Today's OLAP Products  www.olapreport.com/origins.htm History of analytic software products, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, which the author regards as precursors to modern OLAP.

Outliners & Programming  davewiner.userland.com/outlinersProgramming Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products.

PostgreSQL History Document  archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2004-12/msg00033.php Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems.

PowerBuilder History  pbdj.sys-con.com/read/124571_1.htm Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools.

Powersoft History  www.lannigan.org/powersoft_powerbuilder_history.htm Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement.

The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval  www.ifla.org/VI/5/op/udtop5/udtop5.htm Essay on the history of information retrieval and search technologies, written before the World Wide Web took off.

Software Memories  www.softwarememories.com Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers.

Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History  www.stottlerhenke.com/ai_general/history.htm Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems

System R History  www.mcjones.org/System_R Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.

The Technology and Business of ObjectStore  dlweinreb.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/the-technology-and-business-of-obje… Detailed two-part history of Object Design, maker of object-oriented database management system ObjectStore.

Teradata History  www.teradata.com/t/page/42649 Official summary company history of Teradata.

Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree  www.tincat-group.com/mv/familytree.html Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines.

Usenet Software: History and Sources  www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/part1 Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.

The Vintage Mac Museum  www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~motohiko Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.

Visicorp 1978-84  www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/dick.rumelt/Docs/Cases/Visicorp.pdf A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp. [PDF]