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SiliconUser

- Articles about technology history with an Apple orientation.
- http://siliconuser.com/

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DBMS Magazne Interview - August 1995

- Founder Mitchell Kertzman discusses the history of Powersoft.
- http://www.dbmsmag.com/int9508.html

Powersoft History

- Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement.
- http://www.lannigan.org/powersoft_powerbuilder_history.htm

PowerBuilder History

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

Outliners & Programming

- Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products.
- http://davewiner.userland.com/outlinersProgramming

Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend

- Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.
- http://web.onetel.net.uk/%7Ehibou/Beer%20and%20Nappies.html

CORBA history

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

Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection

- History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.
- http://www.computerhistory.org/corphist/index.php

System R History

- Extensive oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.
- http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/

Dan Bricklin's History Section

- By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc
- http://www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm

Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree

- Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines.
- http://www.tincat-group.com/mv/familytree.html

Software Memories

- Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers.
- http://www.softwarememories.com/

PostgreSQL History Document

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

The Vintage Mac Museum

- Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.
- http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~motohiko/

Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History

- Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems
- http://www.stottlerhenke.com/ai_general/history.htm

Visicorp 1978-84

- A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp.
- http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/dick.rumelt/Docs/Cases/Visicorp.pdf

History of Computing: Software Index

- Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.
- http://www.thocp.net/software/software.htm

Usenet Software: History and Sources

- Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.
- http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/part1/

The History of Software Patents

- A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.
- http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html