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Category Hardware@ - 111 sites
Category Internet@ - 102 sites
Category Operating Systems@ - 7 sites
Category Programming@ - 11 sites
Category Robotics@ - 17 sites
Category Software@ - 27 sites
Category Video Games@ - 62 sites
Category Pioneers - 335 sites

 

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Category Computers: Emulators - 443 sites
Category Recreation: Collecting: Computers - 105 sites
Category Society: History: By Topic: Science: Engineering and Technology - 161 sites

 

History - Web Sites

 

The Association for History and Computing
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.
url: odur.let.rug.nl/ahc/

Charles Babbage Institute (CBI)
A research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of computing and information processing.
url: www.cbi.umn.edu/

Chronology of Personal Computers
Timeline of microcomputers from the development of the microprocessor in the 1960s through to the present day. Includes hardware, software, peripherals, companies, and individuals.
url: www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/

Computer History
Articles and photos on many topics; user submitted content with Wikistyle editing for registered users; photo gallery, forum, feedback.
url: www.computernostalgia.net/

Computer History Association of California
Nonprofit corporation, safeguards and organizes the history of electronic computing, internationally, nationally, and in California. They collect and archive hardware, software, and documents.
url: www.chac.org/

Computer History Images
Pictures of many of the pioneering computers.
url: www.crowl.org/Lawrence/history/

Computer History Museum
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).
url: computerhistory.org

Computer Industry History
A list of links to the best computer industry history resources that can currently be found on the Net.
url: www.elsop.com/wrc/h_comput.htm

Computers in the Computer age
A look at the progression in computer technology throughout the ages.
url: www.mcevansw.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Computers, Videogames and Arcade Collector's Ring

url: www.chez.com/samurai/RING/ring.htm

History of Computers
A directory of sites about the history of computers arranged categorically and with specific topic and general topic sections.
url: www.hitmill.com/computers/computerhx1.html

The History of Computing
Detailed information including early pioneers and companies, archives, languages, and networking from the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.
url: ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/

The History of Computing Project
Offers a detailed timeline on the history of computer. Sections include hardware, software, pioneers and references.
url: www.thocp.net

The History of Computing Science: From the Past to the Present
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.
url: lecture.eingang.org/

Jargon File Resources
The Jargon File (AKA, _The New Hacker's Dictionary_) is an essential repository of computer historical information.
url: catb.org/~esr/jargon/

The Modern History of Computing
Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
url: plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/

Museum of the USSR Computers History
A virtual museum containing historical information on computers and computer facilities in the USSR. Includes descriptions of computers, their characteristics, pictures, and personalities.
url: www.bashedu.ru/konkurs/tarhov/english/index_e.htm

National Archive for the History of Computing
Houses the UK's most important collection of documents relating to the history of computing, and encourages interest and study in the history of computing more generally.
url: www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/research/nahc/

The Obsolete Technology Website
Pictures, documents, and advertisements of classic computers from the 1970's and 1980's.
url: oldcomputers.net

PC History
This site is under construction but has some nice pictures of some preIBM machines.
url: pc-history.org/

Punched Cards
Covers the earliest ways of encoding data up to the cards used in voting systems today.
url: www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/index.html

Reflections of a ModemJunkie
Writings on computers, the early online world, and the Internet, dating from 1992 to 2000.
url: www.lgrossman.com/mjnk/

Silicon Valley to Internet Valley
In San Francisco Bay Area; background, history, future: trends, forecasts.
url: netvalley.com/introduction.html

Tools For Thought
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.
url: www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
New updated edition from MIT Press, with new interviews of historic characters.
url: mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&....

Triumph of the Nerds
Biographies, an interactive game, and a questions and answers forum trace the birth of the personal computer at this PBS companion site.
url: www.pbs.org/nerds/

 

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