This book covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation ...

The Virtual OS Museum offers over 1,700 installations of 600+ operating systems, curated by developer Andrew Warkentin since ...

Past perfect? A look back at the good, the bad, and the ugly of cloud computing. In the beginning, organizations always processed data on-premises. Or did they? You may be surprised to learn that ...

History of quantum computing: 12 key moments that shaped the future of computers Although quantum computing is a nascent field, there are plenty of key moments that defined it over the last few ...

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

From centralized servers to the first edge, here is an explanation of edge computing’s origins and progress. Edge computing is one of the most important technologies of modern times. Thanks to the ...

What comes to mind when you look back at the history of Windows? Is it the iconic logos, the ever-changing Start menus, or maybe the introduction of Live Tiles? The story of Microsoft’s flagship ...