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Early 80's As early as 1982 "dumb" terminals were located in a few of Residence halls and provided access to Stanford's Low Overhead Time-sharing (...
~ 350 B.C The brilliant Greek mathematician, Archytas ('ahr 'ky tuhs') of Tarentum builds a mechanical bird dubbed "the Pigeon" that is propelled by...
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the process of designing and creating content that will result in increased amounts of quality traffic to a web...
"History is made by people; it is made up of the events and inventions of people. The history of computing is especially affected by the visions of a...
In the late 1980s, early pen computer systems generated a lot of excitement and there was a time when it was thought they might eventually replace con...
Abacus is a Latin word that has its origins in the Greek words abax or abakon (meaning "table" or "tablet") which in turn, possibly originated from th...
The CMS Report says more than 200 companies are offering commercial products called Content Management Systems. This does not include most of the 80 n...
Note: Yes, a lot of this is from Grolier’s Encyclopedia. Hey, I was young. I didn’t know any better. Credit where credit is due. Also, this inform...
Computers and computer applications are on almost every aspect of our daily lives. As like many ordinary objects around us, we may need clearer unders...
2011 Sep 7: Seagate ships world's first 4 TB HDD (external, with 5 platters), while Hitachi ships the first 1 TB/platter HDDs. Mar 8...
SGML, in its present form, is the result of the efforts of many people, channelled into four major activities that occurred over the past twenty years...
Paper Tape for Data The first PCs used paper tape and Data cassette recorder the same kind that you listen to music with, using a data cassette f...
History of the video game console...
The official story of the Internet was that it was started in the late 1960's by the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA,...
An anecdotal history of the people and communities that brought about the Internet and the Web...
The "Chips" That Started it All Micro-Chip All microcomputers use a processor called a mirco-chip. This is typically a small square sliver of si...
Popular PC writings have it that a trackball is nothing more than "an upside down" mouse. This is, however, quite inaccurate revisionist history and,...
1958 - Integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby During the summer of 1958, TI shut down for the annual two-week, company-wide mass vacation. As a ne...
Hawaii presented a unique challenge and opportunity for those engineers and graduate students. At the time, computers were capable of being linked, bu...
To better understand how the software world works it's important to get a clear idea of what are the origins and the strategies of each operating syst...
This brief timeline of computing skims key events in the creation and invention of computing tools and ideas. These ideas continued and continue the i...
1970 Nutting Associates releases the first commercial coin-operated arcade video game, Computer Space. Nolan Bushnell adapted the game from the earli...
USB Overview In the past, connecting multiple peripheral devices to computer has been a real problem. There were too many different port types (seria...
An History of Bull and of acquired and parent companies: A summary history of the French computer manufacturer Bull and of its parent companies, incl...
Bulldozer is the codename Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has given to one of the next-generation CPU cores after the K10 microarchitecture for the compa...
Personal collection of links for the Burroughs 205 Datatron...
This site is dedicated to the memory of William Seward Burroughs (1870-1904) and the adding machine industry he helped to create. The objective of...
The MCP (Master Control Program) is the proprietary operating system of the Burroughs large systems including the Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems. Ori...
The History of C ALGOL (1960's, One of the first block-structured languages) CPL BCPL (Martin Richards) B (Ken Thompson, Bell Labs) C (Dennis Rit...
The C Programming Language (sometimes referred to as K&R) is a well-known programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter o...
C# (pronounced see sharp) is a multi-paradigm programming language encompassing strong typing, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-or...
Cω (pronounced "cee omega"; usually written "Cw" or "Comega") is a free extension to the C# programming language, developed by the WebData team i...
C2Net was an Internet cryptography company founded by Sameer Parekh, which was sold to Red Hat in 2000. It was best known for its Stronghold secure we...
A timeline outlining many of the major events that have taken place in the world of CAD throughout the past quarter of a century....
CAD software, also referred to as Computer Aided Design software and in the past as computer aided drafting software, refers to software programs that...
From this website you can download instruction manuals and patents of many calculators and slide rules of the past....
Here you will find a wealth of data I have collected over the years on HPs, on TIs and on my all time favorite mechanical calculator, the CURTA. My...
The Calculator Home Page at calculator.org is a collection of resources related to calculators. Over two million PC and handheld device owners around...
Collection of Calculating Machines....
California Department of Industrial Relations. Commission on Manpower, Automation and Technology records....
Callan Data Systems Inc., from 1980 to 1985 was an innovative but short-lived computer manufacturer, named after its founder, David Callan, and locate...
Camino (from the Spanish word camino meaning "path") is a free, open source, GUI-based Web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine and specific...
Results of search for history of computers-- radio and video clips....
Welcome to Carl Friend's computer "museum". In reality, this is a private collection covering a range of calculating machines from slide rules to rea...
Carnap is a general purpose programming language for the next generation of many-core devices, many many-core systems and their applications. It intro...
The full-text digital archive of Allen Newell's pioneering work in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Newell earned an international reput...
The full-text digital archive of Herbert Simon, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics. Simon earned an international reputation as one of the fo...
This website provides links to biographies of "Past Notable Women of Mathematics, Past Notable Women of Computing," and a "TAP's Photo Gallery of Wome...
