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History, Networking & Technology
History of computing |
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- 10 Biggest Computer Flops of all time: www.miguelcarrasco.net/miguelcarrasco/
- 11 Years Ago - Windows 95 Startup Campaign: bink.nu
- 15 Years of Modern Web Browsing: blogs.msdn.com/drnick/
- A history of the Amiga, part 1: arstechnica.com
- A Visual Browser History, from Netscape 4 to Mozilla Firefox: community.wvu.edu/~ast002/mozilla/history.html
- Accessing old digital file formats at National Archives: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6265976.stm
- ACMS Collection: www.terrigal.net.au/~acms/z.htm
- ACMS Timeline: www.terrigal.net.au/~acms/x.htm
- American Computer Museum: www.compustory.com
- ASCII Art Collection: chris.com/ascii/
- Australian Computer Museum Society: www.acms.org.au
- Ballistic computer of 1935 - the 3-ton "Big Brain": blog.modernmechanix.com
- BBC lives! (the computer, that is): bbc.nvg.org
- BBC Micro creators reunite at museum: news.bbc.co.uk
- BBC Micro home computer pioneer honoured in New Year list: news.bbc.co.uk
- Before & After - The original 11 who started Microsoft: blogs.msdn.com/mithund/
- Betty Snyder Holberton: www.awc-hq.org/livewire/
- Big changes - Windows 95 to Windows Vista: shippingseven.blogspot.com
- Bill Gates bids farewell: www.msnbc.msn.com
- Bill Gates - Transitioning into the Future: channel9.msdn.com
- Brief History of Microsoft on the Web: www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_flshbk.htm
- Calculating Machines: www.webcom.com/calc/
- Calculator Reference: www.vcalc.net
- Carl Friend's Museum: www.ultranet.com/~crfriend/museum/
- Celebrating 30 years of OpenVMS: h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/30th/
- Charles Babbage Institute: www.cbi.umn.edu
- Classic Computer Rescue List: www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/classiccomp/
- Colossus: www.codesandciphers.org.uk/lorenz/colossus.htm
- Colossus cracks codes once more: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7094881.stm
- Commodore 64 (History of Gaming Platforms): www.gamasutra.com
- Compact disc hits 25th birthday: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6950845.stm
- Computer built from Meccano in 1934: www.boingboing.net
- Computer Conservation Society U.K.: www.computerconservationsociety.org
- Computer Hall of Fame: www.computerhalloffame.org
- Computer History Links: blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/
- Computer History Simulation Project: www.tiac.net/users/mps/retro/
- Computer mouse celebrates its 40th anniversary: news.bbc.co.uk
- Computer Museum at University of Queensland: www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/pdf/
- Computer Museum of America: www.computer-museum.org
- Creator of Eliza, Joseph Weizenbaum, dies: www.boingboing.net
- CSIRAC - Australia's First Computer: museumvictoria.com.au/CSIRAC/
- CSIRAC - Music Pioneer: museumvictoria.com.au/CSIRAC/
- Dan Bricklin's Log: danbricklin.com/log/
- DECUS Australia: www.decus.org.au
- DECUS Encompass: www.decus.org/encompass/
- DEC PDP-11: www.telnet.hu/hamster/pdp-11/
- Development of the PC: www.ascbc.nsw.edu.au/Computing/ae/
- Differential Analyser Explained: dalefield.com/nzfmm/magazine/
- DIGITAL Computing Timeline: research.microsoft.com/~gbell/Digital/timeline/tmlnhome.htm
- Dinosaur Sightings - Windows splash screens from 1.01 to Vista: content.techrepublic.com.com
- Documenting DIGITAL (DEC): research.microsoft.com/~gbell/Digital/timeline/dechistory.htm
- End of an era - Windows 3.x: news.bbc.co.uk
- ENIAC: www.inventorsmuseum.com/eniac.htm
- ENIAC's 50th Birthday: www.seas.upenn.edu/~museum/
- Eric Allman - The Man Who Made E-mail Go: www.coe.berkeley.edu/labnotes/
- Ersatz PDP-11 Emulation System: www.dbit.com
- Forget Y2K, DST and Time Zones - this weekend, it's the Y2.038K bug: blogs.msdn.com/mthree/
- Grace Hopper: www.inventorsmuseum.com/GraceHopper.htm
- Grace Hopper: www.newsmedianews.com/032197/
- Grace Hopper: www.cs.yale.edu/homes/top/Files/
- Grandaddy Hits 50: news.cnet.com/news/
- Handy Uses of a Home Computer in 1970: blog.modernmechanix.com
- Happy Birthday John Blackus, inventor of FORTRAN: blogs.msdn.com/research/
- Happy Birthday to Windows (Windows 1.0 released Nov 20 1985): blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/
- Heritage computers facing scrap heap (15-Mar-2008): www.abc.net.au/news/
- Hewlett-Packard Garage Rebuilding Project: www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/garage/
- Historic Computer Images: ftp.arl.mil/ftp/historic-computers/
- History of Computer Data Storage: blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/
- History of computer data storage, in pictures: royal.pingdom.com
- History of Computing: ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/
- History of Computing Information: ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/comphist
- History of Personal Computing: www.computer-museum.org/exhibits/pccomeshome/
- How the web went world wide: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5242252.stm
- How Windows used to be tested: blogs.msdn.com/jesperh/
- IBM History: www.ibm.com/ibm/history/
- IBM Mainframe Fortieth Birthday: www.ibm.com/news/us/2004/04/071.html
- IBM Personal Computer: www.pc.ibm.com/ww/pcanniversary/
- ILLIAC I: cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu/history/
- In Loving Memory of Mainframe, Betelgeuse, an IBM 650: umanitoba.ca/mainframe/
- INTERCAL Resources Page: catb.org/~esr/intercal/
- Internet Explorer History: www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIE.mspx
- Internet marks 20th birthday: www.smh.com.au
- Internet Archive Wayback Machine: www.archive.org
- Internet Archive Wayback Machine - Microsoft Backstage: web.archive.org
- Interview with Donald Knuth: www.informit.com
- It's the End for Windows 3.11: blogs.msdn.com/davidhernandez/
- Jefferson Computer Museum: www.threedee.com/jcm/
- Joseph Weizenbaum, Famed Programmer, Is Dead at 85: www.nytimes.com
- Meccano 'Dam Busters' computer stars at MOTAT: computerworld.co.nz
- Microsoft Bob - History Taking Up Space: technet.microsoft.com
- Microsoft's biggest hits and misses: money.cnn.com
- Microsoft's evolution, in keywords: blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/tags/
- Mike Mayfield: www.themayfields.com
- Museum of e-Failure: www.disobey.com/ghostsites/
- National Science Foundation and the Birth of the Internet: www.nsf.gov
- Netscape Browser - RIP: blog.netscape.com
- Obsolete Computer Museum: www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org
- 'Oldest' computer music unveiled: news.bbc.co.uk
- One tonne 'Baby' computer marks its birth: news.bbc.co.uk
- OpenVMS Community Portal: www.openvms.org
- OpenVMS Freeware: www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/
- OpenVMS Hobbyist: www.montager.com/hobbyist/
- PC History: www.pcbiography.com
- PC's 20th Birthday: www.msnbc.com/news/611059.asp
- PC's 20th Birthday - Sort of: www.msnbc.com/news/611299.asp
- PDP Planet: www.pdpplanet.com
- Philips Celebrates 25th Anniversary of the Compact Disc: digital50.com/news/
- Pocket Calculator Show: www.pocketcalculatorshow.com
- Rhode Is. Computer Museum: www.osfn.org/ricm/
- Reminiscing - Videos that will take you back: on10.net
- Retrocomputing: www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/
- Rules of the Garage by Hewlett and Packard: blogs.msdn.com/mthree/
- Russian Pilot Slide Rule: www.ultranet.com/~crfriend/museum/sliderules/sovpilot.html
- SILLIAC: www.cs.su.oz.au
- SILLIAC - 50th Anniversary: www.silliac.org
- Simulation Project: simh.trailing-edge.com
- Slide Rules: www.ultranet.com/~crfriend/museum/inven.shtml#sliderules
- SOS - the signal that has saved thousands turns 100: www.timesonline.co.uk
- T.C.M.H.C.: www.computerhistory.org
- T.C.M.H.C. Internet History: www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/internet_history/
- That Windows 95 video: blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/
- The Krten PDP-8, PDP-11 and PDP-12 Collection: www.parse.com/~museum/
- The PDP-11 Archives: metalab.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/
- The Turing Archive for the History of Computing: www.alanturing.net
- The world needs more than 5 computers: blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/
- Tim Berners-Lee's Post to Announce the World Wide Web: groups.google.com/group/alt.hypertext/
- Tim Robinson's Differential Analyzer: www.meccano.us/differential_analyzers/
- Timeline of Computer History: www.computerhistory.org/timeline/
- To Leap or Not to Leap? (VMS 3.2 SPR 1983: h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/year-2000/
- Top 50 Tech Visionaries: blogs.msdn.com/tzink/
- Triumph of the Nerds - History of the Computer: www.pbs.org/nerds/timeline/
- Twenty five years of the IBM PC: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4780963.stm
- VAX Systems: h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/vax/
- Vintage Calculators Web Museum: www.vintagecalculators.com
- Virtual Museum of Computing: vmoc.museophile.org
- VisiCalc - Information from its creators: www.bricklin.com/visicalc.htm
- Web Pioneers: web.archive.org/collections/
- What Became of the LOGO Programming Language?: blog.wired.com
- What did you do in the Format War, Daddy? (HD DVD, Blu-ray): blogs.msdn.com/andypennell/
- When Programming was Women's Work: blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/
- Why Design Matters. A pictorial history of microsoft.com: blogs.technet.com/seanearp/
- Why typewriters beat computers: news.bbc.co.uk
- Why Windows ME deserves more respect: www.istartedsomething.com
- Windows at 20 - 20 things you didn't know about Windows 1.0: www.downloadsquad.com
- Windows Desktop Products History: www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryDesktop.mspx
- Windows Products and Technologies History: www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIntro.mspx
- Women of Computing & Maths: www.cs.yale.edu/~tap/
- World's First Computer Rebuilt, Rebooted After 2,000 Years: blog.wired.com/gadgets/
- YAPP: www.psych.su.oz.au/pdp-11/
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- 10 Fast Fixes for Nagging PC Problems: tech.msn.com/howto/
- 10 things your IT guy wants you to know: thinksmarter.wordpress.com
- 2007-08 Next-Gen PC Design Showcase: www.nextgendesigncomp.com
- Accessibility and the Tablet PC: herbi.org
- Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time: www.ddj.com/dept/ai/184406478
- AMD Phenom Quad Core review - oh the power: blogs.technet.com/mkleef/
- Ars Technica for the PC Enthusiast: arstechnica.com
- ATX Power supply tester: www.pcpower.com
- Bart's Preinstalled Environment: www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
- Basic Hardware: www.basichardware.com
- Belarc PC Profiler: www.belarc.com
- Blue Gene by IBM: researchweb.watson.ibm.com/bluegene/
- BootDisks - PC Support, Essential Utilities: www.bootdisk.com
- Build Your Own PC: www.msnbc.com/news/659917.asp
- Byte Magazine: www.byte.com
- Can a USB thumbdrive "wear out"?: ask-leo.com
- Central Processing Unit (CPU): www.webopedia.com
- Computer Architecture Tutorial: www.cs.iastate.edu/~prabhu/
- Computer Stupidies: rinkworks.com/stupid/
- Cray Supercomputer In Every Home: blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/
- Data Sheet Locator: www.datasheetlocator.com
- Dell XPS 420 First Impressions: blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/
- Digging in (to internal bits in Windows): blogs.technet.com/ganand/
- Dissecting a hard drive: www.news.com
- Do a clean sweep of your computer: www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/cleansweep.mspx
- DoD/IT Acronym Listing: www.dacs.dtic.mil/topics/acronym/acronyms.shtml
- Doug's Windows Tweaks and Tips: dougknox.com
- Driver Guide: www.driverguide.com
- Explanation of error codes from Device Manager in Windows XP: support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310123
- Fab@Home: www.fabathome.org
- Fast Guide to RAM: www.whatis.com
- Floppy Disk is Not Accessible, Not Formatted...: support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;140060
- Free Answers: www.freeanswers.com
- Graphics Cards - Articles: www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/
- Graphics Unleashed: www.unleash.com
- Guide to PC Hardware: www.mkdata.de/english/
- Handhelds Learning Center: www.brighthand.com/learningcenter/
- Hardware Central: www.hardwarecentral.com
- Hardware Hell: hardwarehell.com
- Home Computing (Intel): www.intel.com/home/
- How NTFS Works: technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/
- How Skype & Co. get round firewalls: www.heise-security.co.uk/articles/82481
- How to Convert a Partition to the NTFS File System: support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];314097
- How to tell your IT person when computer problems arise: msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/
- How Your PC Works: www.pcpitstop.com/pcpitstop/lesson1.asp
- HP SuperDome computer (terabyte of RAM) in Enterprise Engineering Center: channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=27979
- HPC on Dual QUAD Core CPU's : blogs.technet.com/aralves/
- Illusion, Theory, Computation - Andrew Blake on Computer Vision: blogs.msdn.com/robburke/
- IntelliRecovery Data Recovery: www.intellirecovery.com
- Making Your Own Cables: www.nullmodem.com
- Mark Russinovich's technical blog: blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/
- Max Builds a PC - First in Series of Posts: channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Max-Builds-a-PC-Series/
- Maximum PC: www.maximumpc.co.uk
- Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes: www.archive.org/xterabytes.html
- Memory Management in Windows: www.aumha.org/a/memmgmt.htm
- MemTest86 - Memory Diagnostic: www.memtest86.com
- Microsoft Communities: www.microsoft.com/communities/
- Microsoft Hardware Home Page: www.microsoft.com/hardware/
- Microsoft International Tech Development Videos: internationaltechjobs.spaces.live.com
- Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP: www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/
- Microsoft Surface - Behind-the-Scenes First Look: www.popularmechanics.com
- Microsoft's IT Department Numbers: bink.nu
- Motherboards.org: www.motherboards.org
- Motherhboards: venus.spaceports.com/~canada/webhq/
- Motherboard Manuals: www.xs4all.nl/~elhvb/
- Napkin PC - Recent Winner of PC Design: blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/
- NVIDIA GeForce4 chips with AGP 8X: www.tech-report.com
- NVIDIA Video Card Drivers: www.nvidia.com
- Origami Project: origamiproject.com
- Overview of FAT, HPFS, and NTFS File Systems: support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;100108
- PC Inspector Data Recovery Tool: www.pcinspector.de
- PC Mechanic: www.pcmech.com
- PC Pitstop: www.pcpitstop.com
- PC Refurbishing: www.peteweb.com
- PC System Architecture: www.mindshare.com
- PC Technology Guide: www.pctechguide.com
- PC Utilities: computingcentral.msn.com/topics/pcutilities/
- PLC Tutor Site: www.plcs.net
- Pocket PC Models: www.microsoft.com/mobile/pocketpc/
- RAM - All About It: computers.cnet.com/hardware/
- Random Access Memory (RAM): www.terravista.pt/meco/2137/
- Ray's Help Desk: rayscomputerservices.com/helpdesk/
- RivaTuner: www.guru3d.com/rivatuner/
- Siggraph confab spotlights keyboard: msn.com.com
- Silicon Art: www.chipworks.com/art/siliconart.htm
- Skype P2P Telephone: www.skype.org
- Speed Guide: www.speedguide.net
- Startup Applications List: www.vipsupport.com/Startupaps/StartupList.htm
- Startup Processes Chart: www.c-ray.com/starters.htm
- System Administrator Appreciation Day: www.sysadminday.com
- System Mechanic: www.iolo.com/sm/index.htm
- Table of Graphics Chips: www.hwhunpage.hu/gvt_e.htm
- Technik.net - Tons of Hardware Information: www.technick.net
- Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You: online.wsj.com
- The Secret Guide to Computers: www.secretguide.net
- The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security: www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/
- The way Vista loads DLL's: blogs.technet.com/ganand/
- Tom's Hardware Guide: www.tomshardware.com
- Top 10 Benefits of the Tablet PC:
- Top 500 Supercomputers: www.top500.org
- Top Tips for a Cleaner, Faster Computer: www.pcworld.com
- Troubleshooting Site: www.fixwindows.com
- Tuff Test: www.tufftest.com
- Turn an old hard drive into an external drive: lifehacker.com/software/hard-drives/
- Ultimate Boot CD - Overview: ubcd.sourceforge.net
- Ultimate Boot CD for Windows: www.ubcd4win.com
- Ultranauts: www.ultranauts.com
- What is Virtual Memory?: blogs.msdn.com/ce_base/
- Windows HPC, CCS and Clusters: www.winhpc.org
- Windows NT/2000 FAQ: ntfaq.com
- Windows Secrets Newsletter: windowssecrets.com
- Windows Tech Centre: www.informationweek.com/techcenters/windows/
- WinPlanet: www.winplanet.com/winplanet/
- WinRescue: www.superwin.com
- Windows Compute Cluster Server: windowshpc.net
- WinXP News: www.winxpnews.com
- ZDNet Help & How-to: www.zdnet.com/help/
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