The Computer History Museum just launched OpenCHM, which digitizes its entire collection for public view and use.

The museum is based near Mountain View, California, which is quite the trek unless you live somewhat locally. Still, it's got ...

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results. Unearthed in 2012 from a tomb dated to ...

PC monitors are cheaper, faster, and more beautiful than ever. Here’s how to pick one that will suit your needs and budget. Most people treat their monitor like a printer. They just want it to work ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A research team at the University of Utah uncovered a rare piece of computing history. Aleks Maricq, research associate in the Flux Research Group, discovered a version of the ...

At a small local chapter meeting of a professional society, Gordon Moore's talk laid out the rudiments of what would become "Moore's law", which would govern the electronics industry for a half ...

In 1984, a teacher in the village of Dodleston found messages on his offline computer—signed by someone claiming to live in the same house in 1541. What started as a suspected prank became one of the ...

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 ...

October 24, 1988: Three years after leaving Apple, Steve Jobs prepares to launch the NeXT Computer, a machine he hopes will cement his reputation as a tech genius and blow away the machines produced ...

The Programmed Data Processor-1 (PDP-1) is perhaps most recognizable as the home of Spacewar!, one of the world's first video games, but as the video above proves, it also works as an enormous and ...