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Software History Center 
- History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who.
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Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend - Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.
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Borud - History of search engine vendor FAST Search & Transfer, and of a predecessor company founded by an early technical employee.
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Cincom Timeline - Official timeline-history of database pioneer Cincom.
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CORBA history - Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers.
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Dan Bricklin's History Section - By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc
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DBMS Magazne Interview - August 1995 - Founder Mitchell Kertzman discusses the history of Powersoft.
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The Hard Work of Software History - Paper on the challenges and techniques of preserving software history, by a Stanford University curator. [PDF]
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History of Computing: Software Index - Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.
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The History of Software Patents - A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.
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IBM DB2's 25th Anniversary: Birth Of An Accidental Empire - Information Week article on relational DBMS history. Discusses IBM internal politics, and the cooperation between IBM and UC Berkeley researchers.
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Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection - History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.
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The Origins of Today's OLAP Products - History of analytic software products, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, which the author regards as precursors to modern OLAP.
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Outliners & Programming - Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products.
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PostgreSQL History Document - Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems.
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PowerBuilder History - Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools.
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Powersoft History - Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement.
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The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval - Essay on the history of information retrieval and search technologies, written before the World Wide Web took off.
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Software Memories - Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers.
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Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History - Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems
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System R History - Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.
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The Technology and Business of ObjectStore - Detailed two-part history of Object Design, maker of object-oriented database management system ObjectStore.
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Teradata History - Official summary company history of Teradata.
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Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree - Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines.
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Usenet Software: History and Sources - Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.
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The Vintage Mac Museum - Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.
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