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Totalisator
History - the first totalisator, a device for
calculating bets on a race, was invented in Australia.
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8080,
Octal, and Computing - history of the 8080.
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Atari
Time Machine - digital history of Atari Corporation
1972-1996.
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Bill
Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists - 1976 request from Bill
Gates that users of the Altair personal computer stop pirating
Altair BASIC.
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Blinkenlights
Archaeological Institute - devoted to early personal
computers.
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Brief
History of Computing - timeline of computer development,
from the first mechanical calculators to modern computers and
the Internet.
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Calculating
Machines - history, classification and pictures of
mechanical calculating machines.
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Charles
Babbage Institute - a research centre at the University of
Minnesota dedicated to the preservation of the history of
information processing.
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Classic
8-Bit Computers - includes documentation and links for
classic computers of the eighties, including Acorn, Commodore,
Atari, and Sinclair.
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Computer
History and Folklore - Collection of documents and links
relating to computer history and folklore
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Computer
History Association of California (CHAC) - studying,
preserving, protecting and popularizing the history of
electronic computing, while gathering the forces to build a
museum.
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Computer
Lore Gopher
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Digital
Moments - Digital Moments: photographic history of moments
in the computer industry.
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First
Virtual Mousepad Museum - large collection of scanned
images of mousepads.
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Guess
the Computer
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Historic
Computer Images [arl.mil]
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Historical
Computer Society - and Virtual Microcomputer History
Museum.
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History
of Computing [vt.edu]
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History
of the Computer - brief history of computers and
computing.
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Home
Computer Hall of Fame
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IEEE
Annals of the History of Computing - chronicles
significant historical contributions and their impact on
computing and society today.
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Machine
That Changed the World, The - Based on the TV series by
WGBH
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Memoir
of a Homebrew Computer Club Member - an original Homebrew
Computer Club member shares some interesting memorabilia and
memories from the early days of personal computing.
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Mind
Machine Museum - an illustrated listing of a large
collection of historic computers, calculators, boards, ICs,
and computer-related games.
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MouseSite
- a resource for exploring the history of human computer
interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas
Engelbart and his colleagues at Stanford Research Institute in
the 1960s.
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Nascom
Nostalgia - history, Nascom-2 emulator and applications.
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Revolutionaries,
The - interview series explores the exciting, often
surprising stories of Silicon Valley's innovation and
inspiration.
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Rice
Computer, 1959-1971 - A brief narrative history of the
Rice Computer, one of the last of the great homebrew
dinosaurs. Interesting for its tagged architecture and variety
of technologies used.
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Silicon
Valley History: View from Internet Valley
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Smithsonian
Computer History - Transcripts of interviews with
Smithsonian ComputerworldAward Winners, including Bill Gates,
Seymour Cray, and others.
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Story
of Mel, The - The story of a *real* Real Programmer
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System
R - introduced the SQL language and also demonstrated that
a relational system could provide good transaction processing
performance.
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Terak
Museum - an early personal computer made by the Terak
Corporation of Scottsdale, Arizona. It was sold from about
1979 until 1985.
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Triumph
of the Nerds - a companion Web site for the PBS television
special.
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Unisys
History Newsletter - information about UNIVAC, Sperry,
Burroughs etc.
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Univac
Memories
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Usenet
- alt.folklore.computers - Stories & anecdotes about
computers (some true!).
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Virtual
Mousepad Museum
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Virtual
Museum of Computing - an eclectic collection of hyperlinks
connected with the history of computing and online
computer-based exhibits available both locally and around the
world.
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<w3history>
- an open project and work in progress to create a
comprehensive history of the Internet and the WWW from 1989 to
the present day.
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Brief
History of the Internet - from the Internet Society.
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Community
Memory - discussion list on the history of cyberspace.
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Delphi's
Brief History of the Internet
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History
of the Internet - timeline of the development of the
Internet.
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History
of the Internet and the WWW - features the history of both
internet and WWW, also has sections about html and browsers.
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History
of the Internet and WorldWideWeb - list of links to the
best of the web sites about Internet and WWW history and
statistics.
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International
Internet Day - on October 1st, 1999 the Internet turns
thirty. Directory of celebrations around the globe, and a
giant online birthday card.
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Internet
Archive - building a digital library for the future.
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Internet
Historical Society - where long-time netizens can post
short essays about how things were on the net in the "old
days."
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LivingInternet.com
- source of information about the Internet covering the
history of email, usenet, IRC, MUDs, mailing lists, the Web,
and more.
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MIT
Sloan's Digital Time Capsule - contains digitized
representations of the people, places, products, events,
trends, and news shaping business and the Internet in early
1999. The capsule was sealed on February 4, 1999 and will be
reopened in 2004.
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Nerds
2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
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NetHistory
- A page dedicated to the preservation of Internet and BITNET
history. Lots of online magazines, documentation, stories.
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Netizens:
On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet
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RFC
2555 - commemorating and recollecting 30 years of RFCs, as
a tribute to the late Jon Postel, RFC archivist.
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Roads
and Crossroads of Internet's History
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USENIX
;login: - the first isp - first-person account of building
the first commercial ISP in 1989, before the Web was born. By
Spike Ilacqua
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