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"Selection by
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may yet be mechanized.
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"As We May Think," 1945  

 

   

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General Computing History | People | Hypertext History | Internet History

Updated September 24, 2002

 
General Computing History
 
  • Chronicle of Events in the History of Microcomputers, by Ken Polsson
  • Famous Vaporware Products
  • History of Computing, by J.A.N. Lee
  • IEEE Annals of the History of Computer, from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
  • John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer, from the Penn Special Collections Exhibit
  • The Machine That Changed the World, from the WGBH documentary
  • Museum of Obsolete Computers, by Tom Carlson
  • Unisys History Newsletter, by George Gray and Randy Carpenter
  • The Virtual Museum of Computing, by J.P.Bowen
  • The National Academy of Engineering site
  • A huge timetable of computer history
     
    People in Computing History
  • Charles Babbage, a Biographical Page, by J. A. N. Lee
  • Famous women in computing
  • Triumph Of The Nerds: Welcome! -- From the PBS television documentary

     Hypertext History
  • Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, written in 1945.
  • Additional People in the History of Computing from Virginia Tech's History of Computing Pages
  • See also related links from the American Studies Web

     Internet History
  • Hobbes' Internet Timeline, by Robert Hobbes Zakon
  • Netizens Netbook On the History and Impact of the Net, by Michael Hauben
  • History of computer viruses
  • The first Web browser.
  • Bibliography of books about the Internet., news of conferences and other material about the cyberculture.
  • French language site.
  • Humorous internet timeline

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