An encyclopedia description of Fortran history with many links to programming terms.

Pilot project of the Computer History Museum's Software Collection Committee to develop expertise in the collection, preservation, and presentation of historic software. The specific goal of this project was to locate source code, design documents, an...

Images from and discussion of the first Fortran manual, published in October 1956.

Manual for the first version of Fortran (1956).

A brief history of Fortran versions 1 to Fortran 95.

Chapter Excerpt from "Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts" by Steve Lohr, discussing the early history of Fortran.

Sketches of early FORTRAN programmers, by Bob Bemer.

A brief history of Fortran 77 with some links.

Manual for the 1958 version of Fortran created by IBM.

By Jeanne Adams. Describes the evolution of Fortran, focusing on the Fortran 90 standard.