computer history

If you’re on a desktop right now, you’re probably using a computer mouse. In which case, you should raise a glass to…

If you ever wanted to own a piece of Apple Computer history, now’s your chance. Provided you have a spare $300,000…

Marc Verdiell is obsessed with clunky, vintage computers. He has over a hundred pieces in his collection, mostly…

Have you ever had that nagging sensation that your computer was slower than it used to be? Or that your brand new…

Everybody knows that computers were huge and unwieldy in the middle of the 20th century. But a lot of the tech…

Peeking inside a book bin at a Seattle Goodwill, Redditor vadermeer caught an interesting, unexpected glimpse into…

Personal computing has changed a lot in the last 30 years, as this episode segment from 80s tech show Database will…

Today Cory Doctorow tweeted out a fascinating image showing an RCA computer room in 1959. I can’t stop staring at it.

One woman’s trash is literally everyone else’s super-expensive, rare $200,000 piece of computer history. Most of the…

The second season of AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire returns to AMC tonight with a whole new focus: internet gaming.

Now that the collective eye roll around Apple's $10,000 watch has turned into a blank stare, it's time for a…

There was something undeniably awesome about Disney in the early 1980s. The company was expanding its theme parks in…

Ross Perot is a collector. He once bought a copy of the Magna Carta in 1984. But more intriguingly, he also bought…

In the early days of personal computing—think UNIX early—text was often white or green on a black screen. That…

It's hard to say if the Macintosh would've been so successful if it hadn't had such a revolutionary…

Some day a President of the United States may be elected “electronically.” This sentence wouldn’t look out of place…

It’s human nature to hate things that remind us of how dumb we used to be; Like teenagers who can’t stand their baby…

“The ubiquity and power of the computer blur the distinction between public and private information. Our revolution…

During World War II, the best mathematical minds in Britain gathered at a place called Bletchley Park to decipher…