Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.

Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers.

By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc

Founder Mitchell Kertzman discusses the history of Powersoft.

Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.

History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.

Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products.

Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems.

Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools.

Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement.

Articles about technology history with an Apple orientation.

History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who.

Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers.

Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems

Extensive oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.

Paper on the challenges and techniques of preserving software history, by a Stanford University curator. [PDF]

A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.

Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.

Family tree 'poster' and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines.

Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.

A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp.