Open Directory - Computers: History
See also: This category in other languages: - A research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of computing and information processing. - Timeline of microcomputers from the development of the microprocessor in the 1960s through to the present day. Includes hardware, software, peripherals, companies, and individuals. - Articles and photos on many topics; user submitted content with Wiki-style editing for registered users; photo gallery, forum, feedback. - Pictures of many of the pioneering computers. - 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). - A list of links to the best computer industry history resources that can currently be found on the Net. - A look at the progression in computer technology throughout the ages. - A directory of links. - A directory of sites about the history of computers arranged categorically and with specific topic and general topic sections. - 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. - This site is under construction but has some nice pictures of some pre-IBM machines. - Covers the earliest ways of encoding data up to the cards used in voting systems today. - Writings on computers, the early online world, and the Internet, dating from 1992 to 2000. - In San Francisco Bay Area; background, history, future: trends, forecasts. - 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. - Detailed information including early pioneers and companies, archives, languages, and networking from the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. - Offers a detailed timeline on the history of computer. Sections include hardware, software, pioneers and references. - 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. - Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. - Pictures, documents, and advertisements of classic computers from the 1970's and 1980's. - 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. - New updated edition from MIT Press, with new interviews of historic characters. - Biographies, an interactive game, and a questions and answers forum trace the birth of the personal computer at this PBS companion site.
