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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)

 

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