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By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc

Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.

History of IDMS, one of the leading pre-relational database management systems

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

Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems.

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

Notes on the history of the enterprise software industry, by long-time industry analyst Curt Monash.

Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems

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

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.

Brief history of games company Epyx, interview with the lead programmer, glossary, links.

Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.

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