The history of computers from 1930 to the present is a story of extraordinary progress, tracing humanity’s journey from ...

From the earliest mechanical devices to the most advanced quantum computers of the present, the history of computing is a fascinating trip spanning thousands of years. Let’s explore the ...

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But ...

Inspired by A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi. But the selection of key events in the journey from ENIAC to Tesla, from Data Processing to Big Data, is mine ...

Did you know that cloud computing can trace its roots back to the 1950s? Back then, organisations started using large-scale mainframe computers but due to their high cost couldn’t afford to ...

A history of computing flamewars—in handy graph form! Google's incredible new Ngrams Viewer shows us word use over time. What … ...

An expert in the history of computing explains how and why coding went from a mostly female job to a field with a major gender problem.

While there are plenty of books about the history of computing in Silicon Valley and the US, computing in the UK has been perhaps less well covered. Now academic Tom Lean has tried to set the ...