We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you asked me to list some of the games I bought or played in 1994, I’d probably start off with Donkey Kong Country and Final Fantasy III, and it ...

We think of the Internet extending to small devices as a modern trend, but it actually is a good example of how everything makes a circle. Today, we want the network to connect to our thermostat and ...

Against this backdrop, WinHelp in Windows 3.0 provided locally stored help documents, allowing users to access the information they needed without being connected to the internet. This stands in stark ...

Back in September 2014, Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham took on a Herculean challenge in modern computing. Egged on by his coworkers, he used a PowerBook G4 running OS 9.2.2 as his "daily driver" for ...

With Maximum PC and MacLife’s abandonment of print, the dead-tree era of computer journalism is officially over. It lasted almost half a century—and was quite a run. I spent most of that time at PC ...

This article was first published by TVW. The timeline of Ed Lazowska’s life in computing doubles as a quick history of the ...

In the mid-1990s, as computers became more powerful, software demanded more memory — but RAM was expensive and intimidating to upgrade. Most users weren’t comfortable opening their computers, let ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — “God” was protecting part of the Purdue computer system from hackers in the early 1990s. Computer users without authorization that tapped into “God” – a booby-trapped computer ...

KHQ.COM - In 1990 KHQ-TV followed up on a new computer virus popping up in Spokane with a message attached saying "Your PC is now stoned." According to a few websites it was around that time antivirus ...