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- Atlantic Monthly Article - "Living With a Computer"
- A wonderful trip down memory lane. This article appeared in the Atlantic Monthly magazine in 1982.
- Babel Fish
- Translation software for Web pages.
- Computer History Museum Home Page
- Located in Mountain View, California, this is the world's largest and most significant history museum for preserving and presenting the computing revolution and its impact on the human experience.
- Computer Languages History
- An interesting site devoted to the history of computer languages; contains a neat timeline graphic (1954 to 2005) and further information for specific languages.
- Computer Stupidities
- A large collection of stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users. It's baffling to see otherwise intelligent people lose their smarts around computers.
- ComputerBob - Making Geek-Speak Chic
- A general geek site which contains news, guides, software, reviews, help, PC support, and just plain old fun. "ComputerBob" has switched to using Debian Linux full-time, and his journal documenting his experience ("My Debian Adventure") is a great read.
- Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo
- 1968 public demonstration of the online system, NLS, that included the mouse, hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, and network communication. Excellent computer history site.
- Eniac-on-a-Chip Project
- Re-creation of the original ENIAC computer on a a 7.44 by 5.29 sq. mm chip. Interesting links to the ENIAC history are included on the site.
- Groklaw - The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin - Online Book
- A comprehensive history of Free and Open Source by Dr. Peter Salus. (2005-2007)
- Internet FAQ Archives - Online Education
- An archive of Usenet FAQ postings plus FAQs from other sources. N.B.: There are Linux-related FAQs in the Documents link -http://www.faqs.org/docs/ - but many of them have not been updated in a while.
- Jargon File Resources
- Eric Raymond's index of all the Web resources associated with the Jargon File and its print version, The New Hacker's Dictionary. Latest version is 4.4.7, 2003-12-29.
- LWN: The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: Ultimate Physical Limits of Computation
- A fascinating article about the limits of computing power using the "ultimate" laptop as the example for the calculations. (2008)
- Open Channel Foundation
- Publishes open source software from universities and research institutions.
- Open Source and These United States
- Treatise on open source and open licensing.
- PlanetMath
- A collaborative encyclopaedia with articles and papers contributed under the GNU FDL.
- Regular-Expressions.info
- A resource site for regular expressions (regexes), including tutorials, specialized tools and utilities for working with regexes, as well as samples, books, and reference tools about regexes.
- Roedy Green's Computer Buyer's Glossary
- A handy glossary of hardware targeting first time buyers; primarily for Win/Tel computers.
- Sentient Computing Project Home Page
- Using sensors and resource status data to maintain a model of the world which is shared between users and applications.
- System Administrator Appreciation Day
- An annual event to honour all those hard-working system administrators.
- The Computer History Simulation Project
- A loose, Internet-based collective of people interested in restoring historically significant computer hardware and software systems by simulation.
- The Degree Confluence Project
- The goal of the project is to organize a sampling of the world by visiting each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections and taking pictures at each location.
- U n i x Power
- A Unix information portal; includes FAQs, beginner information, security, news, and magazines and publications.
- UNIX history
- An interesting site devoted to the history of UNIX; contains a timeline graphic for UNIX (1969 to 2006) plus links to UNIX people, UNIX lawsuits, and links for further information on UNIX.
- V2_OS Integrated Portal
- A relatively new operating system designed with three goals in mind: scalability, simplicity and speed.
- Vintage Computer Festival
- An international event that celebrates the history of computing.
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