Mark Wilson, “Untitled Gray Ground & Untitled Light Gray Ground” (1973) (click to enlarge) Personal computing may have begun in the 1980s but the history of computer art started much earlier during a ...

When the first PC viruses appeared in the 1980s, they not only tampered with machine systems, but also filled the screens of home computers with technicolor text and flashy graphics or animations.

Apple filed a patent application for a desktop computer that’s also a keyboard. If that seems familiar, it’s the design used by some of the first personal computers back in the 1900s. Because even old ...

Today's computers would not be possible without the immense amount of research and development that took place from the 1940s to the 1970s. Following are the major developments of those decades ...

This story was produced as part of The Verge’s partnership with the Computer History Museum to explore the past and future of tech. Located in Mountain View, California, CHM does extensive work in ...

The first computer didn’t show up looking like anything we’d call a computer now. There was no screen, no keyboard, no mouse, ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Although computers seem like a relatively modern invention, computing dates back to the early 1800s.

Before the invention of laptops and tablets, using technology to learn meant visiting your school's computer lab. From modern computing's early beginnings in the 1930s to the rise of the personal ...