A moth taped to a logbook page in 1947 became one of the most repeated origin stories in computing, and the physical evidence ...

Engineers working on the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947 found a moth jammed inside the machine’s relay hardware. They taped ...

In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals ...

This book covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation ...