Think Piece: The Purloined Mainframe: Hiding the History of Computing in Plain Sight
John Laprise · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 2009
We are unconstrained by the shackles of decades of prior scholarship and find ourselves with an abundance of relevant, important topic areas for which there is high demand. We are fortunate that our focus lies on a moving technological area that constantly presents us with new material for research. Moreover, the history of computing is a foundational field for even newer, hotter fields of inquiry such as the Internet and "new media" studies.