Tech
Places & Virtual Places
The Charles Babbage Institute (Univ of
Minnesota research center for information processing, with historical material)
Bletchley Park (home of Alan
Turing's Enigma machine)
Centre for the History of Defense
Electronics (CHIDE, at the Univ of Bournemouth, UK)
The Computer Museum (Boston)
The ENIAC Virtual
Museum
European Institute of Quantum Computing
The Exploratorium (fabulous, original
San Francisco hands-on science museum, with online exhibits)
The Intel Museum
The Microsoft Museum
MIT Media Lab
National
Archive for the History of Computing (Manchester University, UK)
National Centre
for Computer Animation, UK -- Digital Media Links (Plenty of animation etc
links)
The Retrocomputing Museum
(programming languages, machine emulators, computer games, etc)
Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon
University
Landmarks in Digital Computing
(a Smithsonian exhibit)
Stanford University's Quantum
Computing Site
The Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose's
museum of technology, great online exhibits)
The Virtual Altair Museum
The Virtual Mousepad Museum
(yes, a museum of... mousepad designs)
The
Virtual Museum of Computing
The Virtual Museum of Manchester
Computing
Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research
Center) (the famed site where GUIs, laser printers, etc were born. Nice
rollovers!)
Tech
People
____Now_______________________________
Tim
Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web)
Robert X. Cringely (Accidental
Empires/Triumph of the Nerds author)
Douglas Englebart (inventor
of the mouse and much more)
William Gibson (famed
cyberpunk writer)
Donna Haraway
Haraway's A
Cyborg Manifesto (full text)
Steve Jobs
Michael Joyce (writer of
elegant hypertext fiction; good technocultural course syllabi)
Marvin Minsky (MIT prof,
scientist, futurist)
Nicholas Negroponte
Ted Nelson (the man who invented
the term hypertext and predicted the Web...)
Xanadu (his monumental
publishing project)
Howard Rheingold (Net/Web community
pioneer and WELL-man)
Bruce Schneier (the crypto guru)
Sherry Turkle (MIT
professor/author)
Mark Weiser
(Xerox PARC's ubiquitous computer guy)
Steve Wozniak
The Revolutionaries (Tech
Museum interviews with key tech people)
____And from the past______________________
William R. Hewlett
Hewlett and
Packard (a Stanford Magazine article)
Grace M. Hopper
JCR Licklider (the ARPA man
who helped envision and fund the Internet)
Augusta Ada
Lovelace
McLuhan Quote-O-Rama
(generate random quotes from Marshall McLuhan)
Manchester
Computing people (Turing, Kilburn, Williams)
John
Mauchly (co-inventor of the ENIAC -- a history of computing and Mauchly)
David Packard
Alan Turing (the British computing and
encryption pioneer) or try here
Turing
machine simulated in Java
Tech
and Education
The Consortium for School Networking
EdWeb (huge resource on education and
information technology)
Great Sites for Kids
(from the American Library Association)
Tech
Writing (Non-fiction and essays)
The Cathedral
and the Bazaar (The seminal piece arguing for open code)
Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)
and The Computer as a
Communications Device(1960) (JCR Licklider)
Microsoft
Throws In the Towel (Salon's April Fool's Microsoft story -- delicious...)
As We May Think (the
1945 Vannevar Bush essay in the Atlantic Monthly article which conceptualised
hypertext)
Why
Censoring Cyberspace is Difficult and Futile (Howard Rheingold)
A set of essays on tech subjects on James Gleick's website (author of Chaos)
The Ethics of Free Software (Bertrand Meyer)