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Websites
Recollections of early computers and planning for a Software History Conference.
http://www.palosverdes.com/lasthurrah/

A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.
http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html

Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/part1/

Brief history of games company Epyx, interview with the lead programmer, glossary, links.
http://www.fomalhaut.de/c64.shtml

Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.
http://www.thocp.net/software/software.htm

History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who.
http://www.softwarehistory.org/

A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/fac...k.rumelt/Docs/Cases/Visicorp.pdf

History of IDMS, one of the leading pre-relational database management systems
http://users.senet.com.au/~cherlet/idmshist.html

Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems
http://www.stottlerhenke.com/ai_general/history.htm

Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.
http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/%7emotohiko/