Computers - History

Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and distributed it via the Internet -- for free. Today Torvalds is an...

In the early 1970s the computer was a room-sized machine tended by specialists in white coats, something you fed punch cards and waited on. A handful of hobbyists, dreamers, and misfits refused to accept that. Within a decade they had put a computer on...

He did not come from a laboratory. He came from a potato field. In Idaho in 1921, a teenage farm boy named Philo Farnsworth looked at the parallel furrows behind his plow and saw a way to send moving pictures through the air. With...

Well... How Did We Get Here? is the question David Byrne asked in 1981. It is the question this book asks about the digital world that has assembled itself around us since. We did not vote for the attention economy. Nobody decided, through any...

"It will never catch on." They said it about the calculator, the telephone, the printing press, the personal computer, the internet - and they are saying it again now, about artificial intelligence.In sixty short, surprising true stories, Sasa Pavlakovic traces two centuries of technology...

What happens when knowledge is no longer scarce?For centuries, human progress depended on our ability to acquire, store, and transmit knowledge. Schools were built to teach it. Universities were built to preserve it. Entire professions were organized around possessing it.Today, artificial intelligence is beginning...

At a certain point, the music no longer lived in the performance.It lived in the recording.The Conduit is the story of what happened next.This is not a conventional history of rock music. It is an examination of the system that emerged once music became...

If you use classic Amiga systems, sooner or later you'll face one critical question: what happens when your system stops booting?This practical, hands-on guide shows you exactly how to build your own rescue floppy disk from scratch-giving you full control over recovery, diagnostics, and...

Before the Genius Bar, there was the Red Shirt Army.In the 1990s, if you wanted to join the digital revolution, you didn't go to a glass cube or order from a smartphone. You went to a warehouse. You walked into a cavernous building filled...

What did it mean to grow up fully present-before screens, swipes, and constant connection reshaped daily life?The Weight of Being Present is a thoughtful, lived examination of a world that existed before digital life became unavoidable-and how the transition into constant connectivity quietly reshaped...

HISTORY OF STAUERHistory of Stauer is a deep, compelling exploration of one of the most controversial, misunderstood, and fascinating names in the modern watch world. While luxury timepieces have long been defined by Swiss prestige and centuries-old craftsmanship, Stauer emerged as an unexpected disruptor-boldly...

The Hidden Architects: Women Who Built the Digital World is an inspiring and knowledge-filled exploration of the untold history of women in computing, programming, and internet development. From Ada Lovelace, the world's first programmer, to Grace Hopper, who created the first compiler, to the...

ANSI REVOLUTIONWhen Text Was Art: The Definitive Guide to ANSI Graphics from BBSes, DOS, and Underground Digital Art Step back into the electrifying era when a keyboard was a paintbrush and 16 colors could move a generation. ANSI REVOLUTION is the essential field guide...

He calculated at the speed of light; he had the strength to crush her without even meaning to. It was like playing with fire when you're made of paper. Sleeping with a god who pretends to be asleep. Any human with a survival instinct...

This unique book presents the story of the pioneering manufacturing company Ferranti Ltd. - producer of the first commercially-available computers - and of the nine end-user organisations who purchased these machines with government help in the period 1951 to 1957. The text presents personal...

-Ecclesiastes 12:12 Programs are invariably subjected to many rorms or transrormation. After an initial version of a program has been designed and developed, it undergoes debugging and certification. In addition, most long-lived pro- grams have a liCe-cycle that includes modifications to meet amended specifications...

Author: Angela N. JohnsonISBN-13: 9798995510505Publisher: Real Cat Labs, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2026Pages: 190Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.63d

From Markup to Markdown is a history of how writers have used computers to write, and a look ahead to see what the future looks like for technical writing. This book explores both "technology history" and "how it works" about how we write with...

AI Interview: AI's Potential Control in Warfare In an era where technology is reshaping the battlefield, Interview with an AI dives deep into AI Dominance The Unprecedented Warfare and Its Global Implications. AI's Potential Control in Warfare delves deep into the revolutionary role artificial...

The Tangible Time Machine: The Plausibility of Time Travel by Judy Patricia York is a spellbinding exploration into one of humanity's most captivating ambitions - time travel. Dive into a journey where history and future converge, and the boundaries of time blur into tantalizing...

History's Greatest Cyberattacks is narrative nonfiction about modern system failure. Through a series of real-world cyber attacks, the book shows how trusted digital systems quietly broke down--and how governments, businesses, and ordinary people only realized it once real life stopped working. Written in a...

From nineteenth-century scientific efforts to measure and classify faces to the personalized technology that unlocks your smartphone, facial recognition has reinvented itself, insinuating its logic into the fabric of everyday life. Facial recognition technologies (FRTs) have become ubiquitous through integration with computer vision, machine...

KISS Alexa blends the stories of Ambient AI, Alexa+, and The Caregiver's Tree to reveal a simple truth: when technology becomes simple, people become powerful. This is a human story - the story of how technology finally learned to serve everyone. It is the...

The Atari 2600 is one of the greatest consoles of all time. First released in 1977, it took the world by storm and in turn created what we know as the highly-lucrative video game industry of today. From the iconic wood grain of the...

The Atari 2600 is one of the greatest consoles of all time. First released in 1977, it took the world by storm and in turn created what we know as the highly-lucrative video game industry of today. From the iconic wood grain of the...

Author: William AdamsISBN-13: 9798197586315Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/28/2026Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d

"On Chiltern Slopes, the Story of Hambleden" provides a detailed and scholarly examination of one of England's most historic and visually stunning parishes. Nestled within the rolling landscapes of the Chiltern Hills, the village of Hambleden is presented through a comprehensive narrative that spans...

What if the deepest ideas of Hasidic spirituality could reshape the way we think about innovation, entrepreneurship, and modern life?In Shtiebel and Startup, Israel Prize Laureate Professor Mordechai Rotenberg opens a rare conversation between two worlds that rarely meet. On one side, the intimate...

Facial recognition technology is one of the defining surveillance technologies of our time, and as the technology continues to develop it is urgently important to consider the ways in which it amplifies and reconfigures power relations. While much of the critical work on facial...

Do you feel the Great Numbness?It's that subtle, high-frequency vibration you experience every time you pick up your phone. It's the sensation of the world becoming "thinner." Decisions are easier. Answers are instant. Your needs are met before you even have the energy to...

A history of the ideas behind a device we thought would change everything.Tablet computers appear commonplace today, yet for decades they represented an ambitious--and often unrealized--vision of personal computing. The Tablet Computer traces the long history of this idea, from early conceptual designs in...

Top 10 Video Games: 1980 to 2025 A journey through 45 years of play, pixels, and power-ups. Step into the world of gaming history - from the golden age of arcades to the immersive adventures of today. Top 10 Video Games: 1980 to 2025...

1990 didn't arrive with chaos, revolution, or global announcement - and yet, it changed everything. It was a year that seemed ordinary on the surface, but beneath daily routines, cultural trends, and news headlines, the foundations of a new world were forming. 1990: The...

1995 wasn't just another year - it was the turning point. The world didn't wake up different overnight, but one quiet decision, one new technology, one cultural shift at a time, everything began accelerating toward the future we now live in.Before smartphones ruled our...

1998 didn't look like a turning point. It felt calm. Finished. Familiar. The Cold War was over, the new century was close, and the late 1990s seemed to be coasting toward the future on autopilot. Most people remember the year as background: school, work,...

2002 didn't feel historic while it was happening.It felt unfinished.The shock of the previous year still lingered, but the future hadn't arrived yet. Life resumed, routines returned, and the world appeared to move forward - quietly, cautiously, and without resolution. Fear became background noise....

The year 2000 didn't arrive with answers.It arrived with a feeling.2000: The Year the Future Finally Began is a gripping, atmospheric narrative history of the year the world crossed into a new millennium-and quietly stepped into a future it didn't yet understand.This is not...

2009 didn't arrive with resolution. It arrived with adjustment.After the global financial crisis shook markets, governments, and everyday life, the world did not rebuild itself into something better. It stabilized. Quietly. Unevenly. Permanently changed.2009: The Year the World Relearned Reality is a gripping narrative...

The Evolutionary Tree of AI & RoboticsFrom Ancient Myth to the Agentic Web-Discover the 3,000-Year Lineage of the Machine Mind.For decades, we have been told that Artificial Intelligence is a modern invention, a product of the mid-20th century. We were wrong. AI is not...

2003 didn't collapse the world - it quietly taught it how to live off-balance.In the long shadow of 9/11, the world waited for resolution. It waited for fear to peak and recede, for war to end cleanly, for trust to be restored, for balance...

2010 didn't begin a new era.It revealed the one already in motion.The world expected a reset.A clean start.A return to something that felt whole again.It never came.Instead, 2010 arrived quietly - not as a recovery, not as a dramatic turning point, but as a...

2001: The Year the World Changed Forever is not a timeline.It is a portrait of the moment history stopped feeling distant.The year did not announce itself as historic. It began quietly, wrapped in routine and expectation. The turbulence of the previous century seemed behind...

2004 didn't arrive with collapse, chaos, or revolution.It arrived with recognition.By the end of the year, the world hadn't broken - but it had quietly accepted that nothing was temporary anymore. Fear had settled into routine. Speed had become infrastructure. Trust no longer required...

THE CONTROL POINT: A System Design History of MonopolyMonopoly is not a law of nature. It is a choice of design.For 150 years, we have been told that the giants of industry-from the railroad barons of the Gilded Age to the algorithmic platforms of...

The Conceptual Guide to the Ethics, Law, and Community behind the Linux EcosystemAuthor: Gautham G. NairISBN-13: 9798275330953Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2025Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d

The history of modern technology is incomplete - because it has been whitewashed.Every time you turn on a computer, stream a video, or use a smartphone, you are benefiting from the genius of Black innovators whose names have been hidden or erased.In The UnWhitewashed...

What if the most revolutionary idea in human history wasn't fire, the wheel, or the printing press - but nothing? Zero - Śūnya: India's Gift That Changed the World tells the remarkable story of how a simple circle, first imagined in ancient India, became...

Discover the untold story of how free software conquered the tech world and changed everythingIn 1991, a Finnish student's "hobby" operating system sparked a revolution that would transform technology forever. Today, open source software powers everything from smartphones to space stations, from Wall Street...

Absurd Military Ingenuities: A Journey Through the Bizarre Wonders of History Welcome, curious and intrepid readers, to an unparalleled walk through the fascinating and absurd territory of the most extravagant military inventions of all time! This is no ordinary tour of military history; rather,...

This book reflects a blend of technological and human elements symbolizing the intricate relationship betweenAI and humanity explored in poems.Author: Michael Ben-ElohimISBN-13: 9798877304734Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/24/2024Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.07d