Software History

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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.

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.

Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection - History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.

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.

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]