Computer History and Trends

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Computer History and Trends

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A History of Computing

The Next Platform	Next Platform Radio
Computer History Museum	The National Museum of Computing \| Home to The First Electronic Computers
A history of personal computing in 20 objects part 1 \| The Register	A history of personal computing in 20 objects part 2 \| The Register
6 computer labs that gave birth to the digital world	History of computer science
30 years of PCs (slideshow)	The history of computer storage (slideshow)
Computer Chronicles - YouTube	Computer History - YouTube
Computer History	History of computing hardware
The Centre for Computing History @ Twitter	Computing History - Learning Resources
PARC (company)	Research history highlights - IBM
Turing machine	The Analytical Engine Table of Contents
Enigma Machine	Bombe
Have a go with this WW2 German Lorenz cipher machine – in your browser	Virtual Lorenz \| TNMOC
ENIAC	EDVAC
The ENIAC	Celebrating Penn Engineering History: ENIAC
Colossus computer	Ultra
The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System	UNIX History
Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure	Unix wars
LINUX is obsolete - Andy Tanenbaum/Linus Torvalds debate	The biggest events in Linux's history
Linux vs. Unix: What's the difference?	LEO - Lyons Electronic Office
Multics	The Development of the C Language
Green computing	Grid computing
Fifth generation computer	Quantum computer
List of pioneers in computer science	History of free and open-source software
History of the graphical user interface	List of computer term etymologies
Cloud computing	Distributed computing
Internet of Things	Information technology
In their own words: Unix pioneers remember the good times \| Open Source Software - InfoWorld	Browser wars
Dennis Ritchie Home Page	History of the Internet
The history of Linux: how time has shaped the penguin \| News \| TechRadar	Interactive Timeline of the History of Linux
10 Open Source Technologies You'll Need to Know in 2018	The top 10 greatest geeks of all time - Software - iTnews
How Well Do You Know Your Linux History? \| FOSS Force	6 historic tech items that were rescued from the trash \| Network World
Relive six decades of the computer desktop's changing face \| InfoWorld	Bletchley rebooted: The crypto factory time remembered • The Register
BBC - iWonder - Alan Turing: Creator of modern computing	Alan Turing - Publications by Andrew Hodges
Turing_Paper_1936.pdf	John Vincent Atanasoff and the Birth of Electronic Digital Computing
Linus Torvalds - Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary - Book Review \| BookPage	The most momentous tech events of the past 30 years \| Network World
ENIAC Programmers Project	Moore's law
Computer network	A brief history of virtualisation - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5
Local area network	Wide area network
Geek's Guide \| The Register	A Geek's Map to Britain
Open Source Technology Trends 2021 – What’s there for you?	InfoWorld’s 2021 Technology of the Year Award winners
Web3	Dark web

History of Free/Open Source
History of free and open-source software	History of the OSI
Free and Open Source Movements Part 1 - History and Philosophies	Open Source Content in Education: Part 2 - Developing, sharing, expanding resources
A Brief History of Free and Open Source Software Licensing	A history of FOSS law and licensing
Open Source Software: A History	Free/Open Source Software: A Brief History And Concept - YouTube
A Brief History of Open Source Software \| ConsortiumInfo.org	A Brief History of Open Source Software, Part 2: OSS Licenses and Legalities
A Brief History of Open Source Software, Part 3: The FOSS Environment Today	How open-source software transformed the business world

Computer hardware
History of computing hardware (before 1960)	History of computing hardware (1960s-present)
The early days of PCs as seen through DEAD TREES \| The Register	Classes of computers
Computer Basics for Absolute Beginners
Mainframe computer	Home computer
Personal computer	Minicomputer
IBM PC compatible	Desktop computer
Tablet computers	Laptop
Smartphone	Server (computing)
Quantum computer - Wikipedia	Blade server
Embedded system	Client-server model - Wikipedia
Central processing unit	Computer architecture
Computer memory	Computer data storage
Microcontroller	Microprocessor
Complex instruction set computing	Multi-core processor
Reduced instruction set computing	List of microprocessors
Computer memory	Microprocessor chronology
Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)	Field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
Graphics processing unit (GPU)	What Is a DPU?
Computer data storage	Open Compute Project
System on a chip (SoC)	Single-board computer
ARM creators Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber	ARM creators Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber - Part Two: the accidental chip
Hardware virtualization	Instruction set architecture
Hardware acceleration

Supercomputers
HPCwire: Global News on High Performance Computing (HPC)
History of supercomputing
Minisupercomputer
TOP500
Home \| TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
Cray
Blue Gene
Titan (supercomputer)
Tianhe-2

Computer software
History of free and open-source software	Free software movement
History of open source in government \| Opensource.com	Timeline: Open Source in the US Government
Open Source History: Tracing the Origins of Hacker Culture and the Hacker Ethic	Hacker culture
White hat (computer security)	Black hat
Programming language	Malware
Compiler	Interpreter
Terminal emulator	Desktop environment
Linux kernel	Operating system
Linux distribution	What is an OS? Operating System Definition for Beginners
List of operating systems	History of operating systems
Timeline of programming languages	Timeline of operating systems
X.Org Server	Wayland (display server protocol)
File system	Device driver
Relational database	NoSQL
Block (data storage)	Object storage
Infrastructure as a service	Platform as a service
Software as a service	Cloud storage
Application software	What is software defined networking? \| Opensource.com
Software-defined networking	Software-defined data center
Software-defined storage	Operating system-level virtualization
Virtualization	Network functions virtualization
Hypervisor	Gallery: The 20 most significant events in Linux's 20-year history \| ZDNet
OpenStack	Microservices
LXC - Linux Containers	Fun:Gospel of Free Software
Unikernel	Guide to the Open Cloud 2016
Hyper-converged infrastructure	Parallel computing
Distributed computing	What is DevOps?
DevOps	Open Source and Cloud Computing: Friends or Foes?
Serverless computing	Artificial intelligence
Machine learning	Big data
Kubernetes	Edge computing
Git	Software repository
Open standard	The evolution of package managers
Emulate home computers of the 70's and 80's through linux	API (Application Programming Interface)
How User Revolts Shaped the Linux Desktop	infrastructure-as-code

Unix/Linux System Design
The UNIX Time-Sharing System*	Linux kernel design patterns - part 1 [LWN.net]
Linux kernel design patterns - part 2 [LWN.net]	Linux kernel design patterns - part 3 [LWN.net]
Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns [LWN.net]	Ghosts of Unix past, part 2: Conflated designs [LWN.net]
Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs [LWN.net]	Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs [LWN.net]
Posix