History - Musharof Chy
System R History
Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.
Software History Center
History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Incl...
The History of Software Patents
A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.
History of Computing: Software Index
Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.
PostgreSQL History Document
Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems.
Software Memories
Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers.
Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree
Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines.
Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend
Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.
Powersoft History
Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement.
Outliners&Programming
Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products.
The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval
Essay on the history of information retrieval and search technologies, written before the World Wid...