This story is adapted from The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media, by Kevin Driscoll. For more than two decades, dial-up bulletin board systems, or BBSs, were a primary form of popular ...
In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...
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In the 1970s, one engineer created Ethernet, the networking technology that changed how computers connect
Robert Metcalfe: In 1973, engineer Robert Metcalfe and his colleague Dave Boggs developed a new networking technology at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to solve a growing problem: how to ...
Belle Wong is a freelance writer specializing in small business, personal finance, banking, and tech/SAAS. She spends her spare moments testing out the latest productivity apps and plotting her latest ...
The history of computer science, the internet, and the modern software industry is populated by a cast of characters that is largely White, middle-aged men. Leafing through Walter Isaacson’s excellent ...
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