The first piece of technology that I could call my own was a 13-inch Acer Chromebook. I won it in a raffle at the school fair during fifth grade. The fair had raffles every year, but the prizes were ...

Some Computerworld bloggers have been telling tales of their first computers. I figured I’d throw mine into the pool here… The year was 1984, I was 11 years old and baseball cards were rapidly fading ...

<i> Forgive me Woz, for I have sinned...<br><br>Its been almost 20 years since I last used an Apple.<br><br>I have sold my soul to the unspeakable one from Redmond and turned my back on your creation.

LOS ANGELES -- My first writing implement was a piece of chalk with which I scribbled a series of shapes that, according to my parents, spelled my first name. I was 2. My father took a photograph and ...

On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The two men had worked together before, as members of the Lakeside Programming group in ...

Quick — what was the first personal computer you ever owned? You don’t have to think about it for even a second, do you? No matter how many machines you’ve had over the years, you always remember your ...

We live in an age of mass consumption, encouraged to buy new things rather than make old ones last. In the spirit of encouraging repeat customers, many tech companies make devices difficult to repair, ...