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.
Jargon File Resources
The Jargon File (AKA, _The New Hacker's Dictionary_) is an essential repository of computer historical information.
The Modern History of Computing
Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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.
The Obsolete Technology Website 
Pictures, documents, and advertisements of classic computers from the 1970's and 1980's.
PC History
This site is under construction but has some nice pictures of some pre-IBM machines.
Punched Cards
Covers the earliest ways of encoding data up to the cards used in voting systems today.
Reflections of a ModemJunkie
Writings on computers, the early online world, and the Internet, dating from 1992 to 2000.
Silicon Valley History and Future
Silicon Valley -- San Francisco Bay Area -- background, trends and forecast
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.
Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
New updated edition from MIT Press, with new interviews of historic characters.
Triumph of the Nerds
Bios, an interactive game, and a Q&A forum trace the birth of the personal computer at this PBS companion site.
Net Valley
Explores the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant companies and Silicon Valley history.
A Brief History of the Internet
Microsoft explains the origins of the web in ArpaNet, the contribution of Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web Consortium and domain names.
A Brief History of the Internet 
An anecdotal history by Walt Howe of the people and communities that brought about the Internet and the Web. Includes a glossary of terms.
Brief History of the Internet 
Ross Shannon provides an overview of the Internet's origins, from ARPANET and email to the Web. Includes a breakdown of the components that make up the Internet.
Community Memory
Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.
The History of 404 
The story behind HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found, and Room 404 at CERN. Wait for the real page to load.
History of the Internet
Dr. Rognar Ismaellsen covers the Web, ARPAnet, and TCP/IP.
History of the Internet: Internet for Historians
This overview by Richard T. Griffiths covers the development of computers, ArpaNet, email, search engines and Basic Net Data.
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