If you ask your neighbor who Bill Gates or Steve Jobs is, they’d probably know. But mention Gary Kildall, and you are likely to get a blank stare unless you live next door to another Hackaday ...

But the history of computing started centuries earlier ... it’s unlikely that humans would have invented the electronic computer when they did. Read on to discover more about these great ...

Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. 1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel ...

Heinz Nixdorf might not be a household name in America like Jack Tramiel or Steve Jobs, but he was one of Europe’s great computer pioneers. Starting with vacuum tube based machines in 1952 ...

In Bill Gates' new autobiography, "Source Code: My Beginnings" (published February 4 by Knopf), the computer pioneer and philanthropist writes of his formative years, and the experiences that led ...

Located in the charming city of Paderborn, this museum offers visitors an exciting journey through the history of computer technology – from its humble beginnings to the cutting-edge technologies of ...

NERDS://A Musical Software Satire is an outrageous epic take on the parallel stories of computer pioneers, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, two technological geniuses, as they blaze a path from "garage ...