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History of Firefox
A history of Firefox, the standalone browser portion of Mozilla
The name changed from Phoenix, to Firebird, to Firefox
Posted by rshah on April 15, 2005| Comments (0)
Modem moguls' paths diverge
Modem moguls' paths diverge
While Hayes reveled in the public recognition -- something he hasn't gotten much of lately -- his former partner, Dale Heatherington, spent another quiet evening at home in Roswell, just a multimillionaire who likes tracking his cat with a homemade radio transmitter.
Posted by rshah on December 01, 2003| Comments (0)
Before the Web, There Was Viewtron
Before the Web, There Was Viewtron
Twenty years ago on Oct. 30, Knight Ridder and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company launched in Miami one of the boldest experiments in new media: a U.S. consumer videotext service.
Posted by rshah on November 19, 2003| Comments (0)
The birth of Samba
The birth of Samba
In this ZDNet Australia special report, the creator of the open source file-sharing software Samba, Andrew Tridgell, explains how he came to write the software that has earned him Bulletin magazine's Smartest 100 award in the ICT sector for 2003.
Posted by rshah on October 24, 2003| Comments (0)
Introduction and History of Darwin
Introduction and History of Darwin
Darwin has had a very bright past, and its future is increasingly bright. Many universities use Darwin for educational purposes to teach operating system design. Darwin has grown up and is well on its way of leaving its mother, Mac OS X.
Posted by rshah on June 13, 2003| Comments (0)
Telephone history
Posted by rshah on June 11, 2003| Comments (0)
The PC at 20
The PC at 20
The road from 1981's IBM PC to today's systems--and all the revolutions, evolutions, and stumbles in between.
Posted by rshah on April 09, 2003| Comments (0)
Common Internet File Sharing (CIFS)
Common Internet File Sharing (CIFS)
Microsoft has opened a new chapter in its long-running dispute with open-source software developers--and it could have antitrust implications.
Posted by rshah on May 09, 2002| Comments (0)
Freedom Fighters of the Digital World
Freedom Fighters of the Digital World
History of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the LA Times
Posted by rshah on January 14, 2002| Comments (0)
QuickTime prepared to make its comeback
QuickTime prepared to make its comeback
If you have ever used your PC to play music or watch the Victoria's Secret fashion show on the Net, now is the time to pay tribute to the technology that made it all possible: Apple Computer's QuickTime.
Posted by rshah on December 05, 2001| Comments (0)
Cisco
Cisco
Founding legends are a specialty of Silicon Valley, and none is more appealing than that of Cisco Systems: i/In the 1980s a young Stanford University couple invent the multiprotocol router and starts Cisco in their living room, using their own credit cards for financing. But the Cisco legend is incomplete.
Posted by rshah on December 03, 2001| Comments (0)
Doom
Doom
What more can be said about this game? It revolutionised games playing. Not only was it (and still is) a mind blowing shoot up the baddies game, but it introduced the concept of multiplay gaming across IPX networks. Almost every new game marketed today now includes the facility to participate across a network. Doom also introduced the concept of an 'open architecture' game.
Posted by rshah on December 02, 2001| Comments (0)
Intel 4004 Microprocessor
Intel 4004 Microprocessor
The 4004 was essentially the brainchild of three engineers: Ted Hoff, Stan Mazor and Federico Faggin. In April 1969, Busicom, a Japanese calculator manufacturer, contracted with Intel, then specializing in memory, to develop a series of custom chips for five upcoming machines.
Posted by rshah on November 14, 2001| Comments (0)
PayPal Phenomenon: Lessons from the Leading Edge of Online Payments
PayPal Phenomenon: Lessons from the Leading Edge of Online Payments
In a brief two years, PayPal has emerged as the most successful new payment service provider on the Internet. Growing at a rate of 18,000 new accounts per day atop a base of 10 million registered users, PayPal, more than any other service, is shaping how the online community thinks about consumer payments.
Posted by rshah on November 10, 2001| Comments (0)
Video Games
Video Games
Supercade, a book chronicling the history of video games. Supercade traces the birth of video games back to the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1958, where William Higinbotham used Tennis For Two -- an early version of what would become Pong -- as a distraction to visitors who might otherwise have been concerned about the nuclear tests at the research center.
Posted by rshah on October 03, 2001| Comments (0)
Unix History
Posted by rshah on June 25, 2001| Comments (0)
Prodigy
Prodigy
Let's begin by talking about how *not* to do electronic networking. Prodigy, the network where an electronic response on a topic can take three full days. These are people who spent over nine hundred million dollars on their dreadful, hateful idea of a network. When one thinks what the world would look like today if nine tenths of a billion had been dropped on gopher, wais, archie, mosaic, and veronica, it makes you want to weep aloud.
Posted by rshah on June 05, 2001| Comments (0)
MP3 Inventor Enjoys Music, but Not Riches
MP3 Inventor Enjoys Music, but Not Riches
He tried to warn music companies; they didn't foresee digital music's success, engineer says.
Posted by rshah on May 30, 2001| Comments (0)
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Founded in 1990, EFF is a nonprofit group that monitors free speech, privacy and other individual-rights issues in the electronic age. It has filed lawsuits to defend people who say their computers were unfairly seized. It has lobbied Congress in favor of technology standards and has backed legislation to protect consumer privacy. More recently, EFF has challenged the movie and music industries' efforts to use new, stronger technology to enforce their copyrights.
Posted by rshah on May 29, 2001| Comments (0)
Apple's History
Apple's History
See also Slashdot
Posted by rshah on April 09, 2001| Comments (0)
BSD Family Tree
BSD Family Tree
BSD users are often asked, "what are the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD?" To Linux users and those familiar with Solaris or other Unix platforms, the differences may seem quite small. Despite sharing a common ancestry, the BSD family of operating systems provides a number of complete operating systems packages to meet every need, see also Slashdot
Posted by rshah on April 03, 2001| Comments (0)
Pong History
Posted by rshah on March 12, 2001| Comments (0)
Google
The Research Origins of Google Web Search Engine and its purchase of the Usenet archive from Deja
Posted by rshah on March 02, 2001| Comments (0)
Amiga: The Computer That Wouldn't Die
Amiga: The Computer That Wouldn't Die
in IEEE Spectrum
Posted by rshah on March 01, 2001| Comments (0)
NVIDIA And SEGA
NVIDIA And SEGA
History of NVIDIA. What makes this interesting is that they include a little bit about the NV2 chip which was developed originally for the Dreamcast. It was using quadratic texture maps (a derivative of NURBS) rather than polygons, see also Slashdot
Posted by rshah on February 12, 2001| Comments (0)
Linux Movie
Linux Movie
Documentary concerning the history of Linux and the open-source movement, see also Slashdot
Posted by rshah on February 01, 2001| Comments (0)
NeXT Computer
NeXT Computer
See also Slashdot
Posted by rshah on January 19, 2001| Comments (0)
X-Windows Disaster
X-Windows Disaster
How to make a 50-MIPS Workstation Run Like a 4.77MHz IBM PC
Posted by rshah on January 17, 2001| Comments (0)
Software History Center
Software History Center
Dedicated to preserving the history of the software industry, especially of the mainframe and minicomputer software industry prior to 1985
Posted by rshah on January 12, 2001| Comments (0)
Purple Moon - a company devoted to making interactive media for little girls
Purple Moon - a company devoted to making interactive media for little girls
Posted by rshah on December 08, 2000| Comments (0)
GNU Project
Posted by rshah on October 04, 2000| Comments (0)
Open Source
Open Source
Open Source is more than just a technology; it is a craft, with an ideology and a rich oral history. To understand Open Source you must understand the culture and its heritage.
Posted by rshah on October 04, 2000| Comments (0)
Vintage Computer Festival
Posted by rshah on September 06, 2000| Comments (0)
Macintosh
Posted by rshah on September 05, 2000| Comments (0)
Unix
Unix
A visual map, see also Slashdot
Posted by rshah on August 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Amiga and its return
Amiga and its return
by the NY Times
Posted by rshah on August 09, 2000| Comments (0)
Unix
Unix
by Bell Labs, see also Slashdot
Posted by rshah on August 01, 2000| Comments (0)
Atari
Posted by rshah on June 30, 2000| Comments (0)
Amiga
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Video Games
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
AUTOMOBILES: ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE
AUTOMOBILES: ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE
Notes concerning The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, by James Howard Kunstler
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
XML
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Perl
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
PARC
PARC
History of Xerox's research lab
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
ASCII
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
GUI
GUI
What GUIs Came Before X11?
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
IBM
IBM
IBM's missed opportunity
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Project Gutenberg
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Online Gaming
Online Gaming
History of Online Gaming including Pogo, Total Entertainment Network
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Duke Nukem
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Commodore64
Commodore64
taken from Project 64)
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Personal Computing
Personal Computing
by Larry Press
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Apple Lisa
Apple Lisa
See also Slashdot
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Unix
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
MP3
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
BSD Unix
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
UNIX
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Interactive TV
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Atari
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
General computing history from CNET
General computing history from CNET
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)