Peter Coffees 25 Killer Apps of All Time
Peter Coffees 25 Killer Apps of All Time
People who never wanted a computer still wanted the perfect typewriter, and Electric Pencil for CP/M machines (cloned as EasyWriter for IBM PCs) made that a reality.
Peter Coffees 25 Killer Apps of All Time - 1978: WordStar
For users who became imprinted on its unintuitive but memorable interface, anything that didnt run WordStar...
eWEEK Labs Staffers Reveal – ‘The Products That Turned Me On To Technology’
eWEEK Labs Staffers Reveal - 'The Products That Turned Me On To Technology'
Texas Instruments TI-99/4AMy parents got me this home computer when I was teenager. It let me write programs in Basic and save them to a cassette recorder. It also came with some pretty cool games.
eWEEK Labs Staffers Reveal - 'The Products That Turned Me On To Technology'...
The Open-Source Apps That Missed Our List
The Open-Source Apps That Missed Our List
eWEEK recently named the most important open-source applications of all time. At the end of our list we asked, What did we miss? Well, according to some, w
The Open-Source Apps That Missed Our List - GCC
GCC: The GNU Compiler Collection. (And, by far, the app named most often--and most vocally--as worthy of belonging...
The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time
The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time
The Apache Web server is the only open-source app not only to lead but to dominate in market share (and that includes domination over Microsofts offering in this area, Internet Information Se
The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time - Linux Kernel
The Linux kernel project is, quite simply, the engine that drives...
eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools
eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools
Each year, eWEEK Labs evaluates hundreds of enterprise-class products on test beds that mimic real-world environments. To maintain the systems that comprise these environments, and to properly put products through their paces, the analysts rely on a c
eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools - Audacity
Whether were combining audio streams, editing long recorded meetings or producing the weekly TestRun...
The Most Famous (or Infamous) Viruses and Worms of All Time
The Most Famous (or Infamous) Viruses and Worms of All Time
The first sign of computer worm activity dates back to 1982, when a program called Elk Cloner squirmed through Apple II systems. The SCA virus and Brain, written for IBM PC compatibles and Amigas, would pop up in the late 1980s, followed by the Morris Wor
The Most Famous (or...