The Browser Wars: How Netscape and Internet Explorer Fought for the Desktop
Reconstruct Netscape's rise and Internet Explorer's distribution campaign using the Microsoft antitrust record, product history and Mozilla evidence.
Operating systems, infrastructure, emulation, and technical history.
Reconstruct Netscape's rise and Internet Explorer's distribution campaign using the Microsoft antitrust record, product history and Mozilla evidence.
The famous '640K ought to be enough' line has no verified source, and Gates denied it on the record. What the paper trail actually shows.
Gore never said 'I invented the internet.' The exact 1999 sentence, how it mutated within days, and what Cerf and Kahn say his record shows.
ENIAC is taught as the first electronic computer, but 1973's Honeywell v. Sperry Rand invalidated its patent - partly over a 1941 visit to Atanasoff.
Ray Tomlinson deserves credit for one specific breakthrough: networked email. Same-machine electronic mail existed years before he touched it.
The Apple I and II are often credited as the birth of personal computing. The Altair 8800 beat them to market by more than a year.
What the preserved 1947 Mark II logbook proves about its famous moth, what later retellings invented, and what Hopper actually achieved.
Find RFCs, decode status and obsoleted-by chains, read MUST/SHOULD normative language, and use the primary specs behind email and the web.
How the 1988 Morris Worm spread through Unix systems, disrupted the young internet, drove CERT's creation, and led to a landmark US computer-crime conviction.
How Napster's centralized index enabled peer-to-peer music sharing, triggered landmark litigation, and forced the recording industry toward digital distribution.