If you think about it for just a moment or two, you’ll realize the difficulty in a technology company staying relevant for 100 years given the rate and diversity of technological advancement during that time. Well, IBM has done just that.

Of course, IBM is a totally different company today than when they started out 100 years ago as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in 1911. It wasn’t until 1924 that it changed its name to IBM (which computer folks used to refer too as “itty bitty machines”).

So here is a salute to IBM for managing a feat of epic proportions in this day of constant technological change.

 

Click here for PC Magazine’s write-up with more details on 100 years of IBM.