What were the browser wars really about? Take a trip down memory lane to one of the biggest fights in computing.

What effects did the Dot-com Bubble have on the world of computing? Take a look back at one of the internet's most turbulent ...

In 1903, the German clock manufacturer from Schwarzwäld — Bäuerle Uhrenfabrik (Clock Factory), Sankt Georgen, launched his adding machine Peerless, which soon became popular and won gold medals at ...

How did amateur developers shape the modern internet? Take a trip down memory lane as we recall the impact of Web 1.0 and 2.0 ...

In the history of computers, few are as memorable and as important to a company’s history as that of the Macintosh. Famously championed by Steve Jobs, the 1984 release of the Macintosh and its “1984” ...

Long before the hand-held calculators, there was the millionaire calculator machine—a large, clunky, and expensive mechanical machine that performed direct multiplications with only a single turn of a ...

The great American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter ...

The cylindrical calculating machines of the German parson Philipp Matthäus Hahn (see biography of Philipp Matthäus Hahn) were the first fully functional popular four-species mechanical calculating ...

Coming out of the 1980s, the computer industry was looking to make leaps and bounds into the future. With the internet and email becoming a part of daily life, the need for more powerful personal ...

Newman Marshman was the inventor of the modern typewriter. As an African-American inventor, Marshman’s achievement is even more remarkable when one considers the natural obstacles that he had to face ...

“Modem” is an abbreviation of the device’s function, which is to act as a modulator-demodulator for data signals traversing analog and digital networks. As the product evolved, the transfer speeds ...

While most people only think about Mac OS, Linux, and Windows, Aldus Pagemaker was also released for IBM PC. It was even released for IBM PC before it was released for Windows. The creators of ...