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Computer History Museum - http://computerhistory.org
Focuses exclusively on the history of computing. Located in Mountain View, California. Search the collection, illustrated timeline, online exhibits and select images from the collection, "This Day in History," curator's choice, and the Hall of Fellows (awards for contributions to computing). |
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Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) - http://www.cbi.umn.edu/
A research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of computing and information processing. |
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Jargon File Resources - http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/
The Jargon File (AKA, _The New Hacker's Dictionary_) is an essential repository of computer historical information. |
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The History of Computing - http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/
Detailed information including early pioneers and companies, archives, languages, and networking from the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. |
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Triumph of the Nerds - http://www.pbs.org/nerds/
Biographies, an interactive game, and a questions and answers forum trace the birth of the personal computer at this PBS companion site. |
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Silicon Valley to Internet Valley - http://netvalley.com/introduction.html
In San Francisco Bay Area; background, history, future: trends, forecasts. |
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The Association for History and Computing - http://odur.let.rug.nl/ahc/
An international organization which aims to promote and develop interest in the use of computers in all types of historical study at every level, in both teaching and research. |
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Tools For Thought - http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/
by Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of computing; includes Babbage, Turing, von Neumann, Engelbart, PARC, Kay, and Atari. |
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The Modern History of Computing - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/
Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. |
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Computer History Association of California - http://www.chac.org/
Non-profit corporation, safeguards and organizes the history of electronic computing, internationally, nationally, and in California. They collect and archive hardware, software, and documents. |
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Chronology of Personal Computers - http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/
Timeline of microcomputers from the development of the microprocessor in the 1960s through to the present day. Includes hardware, software, peripherals, companies, and individuals. |
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Museum of the USSR Computers History - http://www.bashedu.ru/konkurs/tarhov/english/index_e.htm
A virtual museum containing historical information on computers and computer facilities in the USSR. Includes descriptions of computers, their characteristics, pictures, and personalities. |
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History of Computers - http://www.hitmill.com/computers/computerhx1.html
A directory of sites about the history of computers arranged categorically and with specific topic and general topic sections. |
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PC History - http://pc-history.org/
This site is under construction but has some nice pictures of some pre-IBM machines. |
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The History of Computing Science: From the Past to the Present - http://lecture.eingang.org/
Lecture presented by Michelle A. Hoyle explaining how computers and computing science arose from using sticks with notches for counting, to the massive explosion of personal computers in the 1980s. |