The history of computers began with primitive designs in the early 19th century and went on to change the world during the 20th century.

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the internet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

In a 1987 article in the Times Book Review, Robert Solow, a Nobel-winning economist at M.I.T., commented, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Despite massive ...

Radio Shack, despite being gone for a number of years, is still in our cultural consciousness. But do you know Tandy? And did you ever wonder how a leather company that started in 1919 became, briefly ...