Knowledge: history
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See Also:
- computers → emulators
- recreation → collecting → computers
- society → history → by topic → science → engineering and technology
Links
- Computer Industry History
http://www.elsop.com/wrc/h_comput.htm - Comprehensive list of links to the best computer industry history resources that can currently be found on the 'Net
- Computing Millennium timeline
http://www.computingnet.co.uk - A project to create the definitive list of the 1,000 key innovations and events in the last 1,000 years of information technology.
- PC History
http://pc-history.org/ - This site is under construction but has some nice pictures of some pre-IBM machines.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Computers, Videogames and Arcade Collector's Ring
http://www.chez.com/samurai/RING/ring.htm - 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.
- Triumph of the Nerds
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/ - Bios, an interactive game, and a Q&A forum trace the birth of the personal computer at this PBS companion site.
- Computer History Images
http://www.crowl.org/Lawrence/history/ - Pictures of many of the pioneering computers.
- Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3784 - New updated edition from MIT Press, with new interviews of historic characters.
- The History of Computing Project
http://www.thocp.net - Offers a detailed timeline on the history of computer. Sections include hardware, software, pioneers and references.
- 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.
- 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.
- Punched Cards
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/index.html - Covers the earliest ways of encoding data up to the cards used in voting systems today.
- The Obsolete Technology Website
http://oldcomputers.net - Pictures, documents, and advertisements of classic computers from the 1970's and 1980's.
- 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.
- 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.
- Reflections of a ModemJunkie
http://www.lgrossman.com/mjnk/ - Writings on computers, the early online world, and the Internet, dating from 1992 to 2000.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- National Archive for the History of Computing
http://www.chstm.man.ac.uk/nahc/ - 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.
- Computer History
http://www.computernostalgia.net/ - Articles and photos on many topics; user submitted content with Wiki-style editing for registered users; photo gallery, forum, feedback.
- Ancient Computer Community
http://www.ancientcomputer.com/ - Private collection of computers, calculators, consoles, books, reviews; many rarities; also available for exhibitions and events.
- Silicon Valley to Internet Valley
http://netvalley.com/introduction.html - In San Francisco Bay Area; background, history, future: trends, forecasts.
- 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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