However, once you read this, the fact that you read it is now history, too. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Like many, I’ve repeated George Santayana’s quotes, but ...

The threat to software-as-we-know-it comes from digital data: the foundational, eight-decades-long trend driving the evolution of computer technology and its varied uses.

Programming began as a way to give simple instructions to machines that barely worked. Over decades, it evolved through punch ...

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are accusing the Department of Justice (DOJ) of spying on them as they reviewed the ...

The NeXT Computer was great but it didn't sell. February 9, 1993: NeXT Inc., the company Steve Jobs founded after being pushed out of Apple, quits making computers. The company changes its name to ...

Annual award program recognizes honorees for significant contributions to the foundations of mobile computing, digital preservation, and open access to knowledge The CHM Fellow Awards honor ...

id Software releases Wolfenstein 3D. Players thrilled with the game’s lightning-fast action, iconic arsenal and secret-filled hallways paved the way to the burgeoning popularity of the first-person ...

The Computer History Museum, a Silicon Valley-based museum that houses the historical heritage of computing, has announced the launch of OpenCHM, a digital portal that provides access to its vast ...

How videogames became the world’s most profitable pastime—from “Spacewar” to “Roblox.” ...

The video featured Romero's own recollections, as well as those of id vets Tom Hall, John Carmack, and Adrian Carmack⁠—no relation on those last two, by the way. I only found that out embarrassingly ...

The first writing system appeared roughly 5,000 years ago in Sumer, southern Mesopotamia—modern‑day Iraq. Using a reed stylus, people pressed wedge‑shaped marks into clay tablets, creating cuneiform.

Before the NES, home consoles were a burned market in the US. Nintendo reversed that narrative with games that turned ...