We’ve been highlighting the 60th anniversary of EDN in these pages by taking a look back at past articles, and bloviating hypothesizing what the next 60 years could bring. With that in mind, I was ...

That evening, computer scientist Howard Gayle responded with a facetious message titled “WARNING!” He claimed that an ...

Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. I've known my friend Jeff since I was 2 years old. He was one year ...

NEW YORK -- What began as a ninth-grade prank earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever to let loose a personal-computer virus. Although during the next 25 years, Skrenta started the ...

CHRIS SERLE, IAN MCNAUGHT-DAVIS and Gill Nevill, continue their exploration of the world of information science. Even the most elaborate and sophisticated computer programs are made up of only a few ...

The Omni Future Almanac is 293 pages of paleo-future glory. In the “Projected Computer Milestones” section of the book I naturally turned to 2007, curious just how far behind we are. It then occurred ...

The Computer Programme was a TV series, produced by Paul Kriwaczek, originally broadcast by the BBC in 1982. The idea behind the series was to introduce people to computers and show them what they ...

Simon Groom demonstrates the technological marvel that is the computer Christmas card. This clip is from Blue Peter. BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 16 December 1982. 1982: Computer Christmas card.

Reagan politics was the paradoxical synthesis of "the spokesman for a scientific and technological revolution that a few years ago would have smacked of science fiction with the revivalists of ...