Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. I've known my friend Jeff since I was 2 years old. He was one year ...

In 1982, you could let a $500,000 store computer tell you whether Aunt Mary should get a sweater because she "looks like ...

We’ve been highlighting the 60th anniversary of EDN in these pages by taking a look back at past articles, and bloviating hypothesizing what the next 60 years could bring. With that in mind, I was ...

Richard Skrenta’s “Elk Cloner” was 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program. Described by its author as “some dumb little practical joke,” the virus attached itself to the Apple DOS 3.3 ...

CHRIS SERLE, IAN MCNAUGHT-DAVIS and Gill Nevill, continue their exploration of the world of information science. Even the most elaborate and sophisticated computer programs are made up of only a few ...

The Computer Programme was a TV series, produced by Paul Kriwaczek, originally broadcast by the BBC in 1982. The idea behind the series was to introduce people to computers and show them what they ...