From Jeff Moser’s software development adventures there is a fantastic, funny, and informative article that explains the rise of AES over DES.
EFF DES cracker – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
In cryptography, the EFF DES cracker (nicknamed “Deep Crack”) is a machine built by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in 1998 to perform a brute force search of DES cipher’s key space.










