History

Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend - Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.
web.onetel.net.uk/%7Ehibou/Beer%20and%20Nappies.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection - History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.
www.computerhistory.org/corphist/index.php

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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