Guy's, I need some help, I'm not quite up to speed on the hardware side of thing, motherboards/cpu's and gpu's and the technologies they run on.

Basically I would love if someone could point me in the direction of the history of different technologies, where and how it started, and what technologies are expected for the short-term future.

Also, another thing I don't understand is how and why different cpu's go into different motherboards but don't go into others.

Any info appreciated

regards Pete.