Mark Wilson, “Untitled Gray Ground & Untitled Light Gray Ground” (1973) (click to enlarge) Personal computing may have begun in the 1980s but the history of computer art started much earlier during a ...

When the first PC viruses appeared in the 1980s, they not only tampered with machine systems, but also filled the screens of home computers with technicolor text and flashy graphics or animations.

Apple filed a patent application for a desktop computer that’s also a keyboard. If that seems familiar, it’s the design used by some of the first personal computers back in the 1900s. Because even old ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Although computers seem like a relatively modern invention, computing dates back to the early 1800s.

Today's computers would not be possible without the immense amount of research and development that took place from the 1940s to the 1970s. Following are the major developments of those decades ...

If you feel like every OS now feels too polished, flat, and boring, there’s a new museum that takes you down a rabbit hole of all the vintage computers. Virtual OS Museum, curated by Andrew Warkentin, ...

In Boston in the 1970s, Tom Vernon writes, a few early adopters in radio had envisioned many of the computer applications ...