On a crisp California afternoon in early December 1968, a square-jawed, mild-mannered Stanford researcher named Douglas Engelbart took the stage at San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium and proceeded to ...

A New York-Historical Society exhibit on advancements in tech. It’s hard to believe that the cell phones that fit in our hands are more powerful than the early computers that once occupied entire ...

Early computer kits aimed at learning took all sorts of forms, from full-fledged computer kits like the Altair 8800 to the ready-made MicroBee Computer-In-A-Book. For those just wanting to dip their ...

Back in 1968, a book titled “How to Build a Working Digital Computer” claimed that the sufficiently dedicated reader could assemble their own functioning computer at home using easily obtainable ...

Now that electronics control our lives, the Museum of the Moving Image will present a three-day series about films from the Good Old Days, when science fiction trumped computer science. Seven sessions ...

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An exhibition of early computer art shows that artists working with early-stage technologies make their best work by combining old and new techniques. Harold Cohen, “74D10” (1974), computer-generated ...

Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge. silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, ...