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Internet Forums Chat E-Journals E-Mail Mailing Lists Newsgroups
Portals Webcasting Web Rings
Web Weaving Accessibility Hypertext and HTML Web Style: Writing for the Web

Home Computing (cont.)

History of Personal Computing

Internet Connectivity

The most pressing issue for the future of the Internet is not how the technology will change, but how the process of change and evolution itself will be managed.

Barry M. Leiner et al. (from Communications of the ACM, March 1997)

Should we then feel that we are getting smarter and smarter, more and more in control of nature, as we evolve? Not really. Just better connected -- connected into a better shape.

Tim Berners-Lee

Access Online (NCSA)

Add This! Social Bookmark and Feed Button
(Web2.0 Social Media Optimization)

AdSubtract.com (InterMute)

Agentland.com

Alexa

All About Modems (Telecom Pricer)

AllNetResearch.com

Analog: A WWW server logfile analysis program (Stephen Turner)

AnalogX - Downloads (NetStat Live)

AnyList

An Atlas of Cyberspaces (Martin Dodge)

-- European Mirror

Anonymizer (Anonymous Surfing)

Anonymous Surfing (Alex Shahidi, Primedius, San Jose, California)

Apps.com

AquaBrowser (Medialab Solutions)

AtomEnabled.org (AtomEnabled Alliance)

The attention economy: What is the real cost of your online attention? (Tom Chatfield, Aeon Magazine, 7 Oct 2013)

AWS, Inc. - Hyperlocal News, Weather and Sports via Television, the Web, E-Mail and Wireless

Backflip | Stop Bookmarking and Start Backflipping...

Bandwidth Meter Speed Test(CNET)

Bandwidth Place

Bandwidth Speed Tests (Eric A. Arnold)

Beeline Bandwidth Test (NL)

Blink Login

Blogger

Boardwatch Traceroute Server Index

Bookmark Converter (Magnus Bråding)

BookMarksPlus - The Ultimate Free Web-based Bookmark Solution

Bookmarks2Go - Starting Points

Broadband Speed Test (ADSLguide, UK)

Browsers.com (CNET)

Browser Home (Wells Fargo)

BrowserSpy (Henrik Gemal)

BrowserTune (Fred Langa, Windows Magazine)

BrowserWatch

BugMeNot.com

BullsEye (IntelliSeek Inc.)

CAIDA (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis)

CallingID for the Internet (New Haven & Haifa)

CentralOps.net Free Online Network Utilities (Hexillion)

C4U

CIDI Home Page (Computer Industry Database: Internet)

CiteULike: A free online service to organize your academic papers (Richard Cameron)

Clipmarks (Amplify LLC, New York)

Co-Citer (Cogitum LC)

ComSocks Proxy Server and Firewall for Windows 95/98/NT

Connotea Online Reference Management Service
(Nature America, New York)

Cookie Pal (Kookaburra Software)

CoolSync - Access Your Bookmarks from Any PC

Copernic

Creating a "Kiosk" Browser Window in Netscape Navigator
(Andrew Mutch)

CTDepot.com - Computer Telephony Depot

CubicEye, a 3D Browser (2ce)

CyberAtlas: Internet Statistics and Market Research

The CyberKit HomePage (Luc Neijens)

Dan Kegel's ISDN Page

Data Conversion Online (Iconv.com)

Digg Arc (Digg Labs)

A Distributed Testbed for National Information Provisioning (NLANR)

Download Accelerator

Driveway Free Online File Storage

DSL Speed Test

Dunce - Vector Development

802.11Hotspots.com Directory of Wi-Fi Access Points

Enfish Onespace

eSnips.com | Snip, Store, and Share (Net Snippets, Sunnyvale, California)

Eudora Light Mail Client

An Exhaustive Study of Twitter Users Across the World (Beevolve, Oct 2012)

Expansion of CyberSpace (Kavan U. Ratnatunga)

Express Search

The 56K Modem Battle (Jack Ricard, Boardwatch, March 1998)

56K Modem Home Page: K56flex and x2 (Les Jones)

Filangy | Search ActiveWeb (Chirag Chaman, New York)

The FileDudes Internet Software Site (Mark Pellicane et al.)

FilterGate.com (adScience, UK)

Firefox (Mozilla)

1st Page 2000 HTML/Script Editor

Fortify for Netscape - Home Page

4ComTech Browsers (FW)

Freedom - Internet Privacy & Security Software

Free Download Manager (SoftDeluxe, Inc., Washington, DC)

Free HomePages for All (Tripod)

Free Internet Services - Free Web Pages (Allan Platt)

Freeinternetservices.com Homepage Portal

Free Stuff on the Internet (Chuck Roberts)

Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet (Tim O'Reilly)

Free Web Page Providers (MWRJ)

Free Webpages (Focus Asia)

The Geography of Cyberspace Directory (Martin Dodge)

-- European Mirror

Glide - The first complete online operating system (Marcu Farny, TransMedia, New York)

Global Internet Statistics (by Language)

Google Browser (TouchGraph, Livingston, New Jersey)

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Go!zilla Download

Guidescope

The Guide to Free Web Space (T. A. McBride)

GuruNet Reference Answer Engine (Bob Rosenschein et al.)

GuruNet Kids

Headcount.com: Internet Usage Around the World

High Bandwidth Web Page

HipBONE Co-navigator

HotLinks - The Online Search Community

The HotSpot Haven Wi-Fi Hotspots Directory
(Noah Rosenblatt et al., HotSpot Wireless)

How Many Online? (Nua Internet)

HTTrack Website Copier - Offline Browser (FW, Xavier Roche et al., Caen, France)

IBM Intelligent Agents Home Page

IE Booster

IETF Home Page (The Internet Engineering Task Force)

iHarvest - Go Way Beyond Bookmarks

iKeepBookmarks.com - A Web-Based Bookmark Manager

Infolets - Internet Innovations Explored

Intel's Connected PC

International Internet Connectivity Map (Lawrence H. Landweber)

International Internet Statistics (ITM Solutions)

Internet.com

Internet.com: Server Watch (ed. Keith Allison)

Internet Connection Speedometer (McAfee Security)

Internet Connection Testing Center (Computers4SURE Speed Test)

Internet Connectivity Handbook (Carl Gerzybowski)

Internet Domain Survey

Internet Explorer Home

Internet Freeware

Internet Insights (VitalSigns)

Internet Nexus (Paul Thurrott & Joseph R. Jones)

Internet Performance and Statistics in the Press (IPMA Press)

The Internet Report (IETF)

Internet Research -- Matrix.net

Internet Service Provider Help (CCI)

Internet Shareware and Freeware for Windows 95/98 (5Star)

Internet Society Home Page

Internet Software Consortium (ISC)

Internet Statistics (Faculty of Information Studies, U of T)

Internet Statistics: Web Growth, Internet Growth (Matthew Gray)

Internet Traffic Report (Andover News Network)

Internet Trends (Center for Next Generation Internet)

Internet Weather Report (Jon S. Stevens)

Intranet Reference Site - The Complete Intranet Resource

The Intranet Resource Center (WebMaster's Notebook)

The Intranet Road Map

i-Opener (Netpliance)

IP Address, What Is My?

IP Address - What is your Internet IP address?

IPL Ready Reference Collection: Browsers

IPMA Project (Internet Peformance Measurment and Analysis)

IP World Map Project

ISDN InfoCentre

ISDN Zone

Is the Internet Heading for a Cache Crunch?
(Russell Baird Tewksbury, On the Internet, Jan.-Feb. 1998)

ISPcheck

itList - The Bookmark Portal (Jason Frankovitz)

Jesse's Bookmarklets Site (Jesse Ruderman)

JiWire.com - Wi-Fi Hotspot Finder, Product Reviews, and Industry News

Karnak

Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index

Keynote Systems: Net User

K-Meleon Web Browser

Launching Programs and CDs from Web Browsers

Life on the Internet: Connecting to the Internet (Berit Erickson)

-- PBS Online Guide

Life on the Internet: Internet Software (Berit Erickson)

-- PBS Online Guide

LinkPopularity.com: The Free Link Popularity Service

Liquid Audio

List of Web Browsers (Graham Nasby, Web Browser Information Project)

Locale Website Archive (Martin Aignesberger, Attnang-Puchheim, Austria)

Lycos Computers Guide: Internet Downloads

Lynn Larrow's Place

Macintosh Internet Applications - The Mac Orchard

Manageable Software Services, Inc. (Catch-UP Scanner)

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Microsoft.NET

Microsoft WebTV Networks

MIDS Home (Matrix Information and Directory Services)

MIDS Internet Weather Report (IWR)

-- Canada

Mind-it (Netmind)

MobileLeap Reformatting Service

Mobile Technology Speed Comparison Simulator (Lucent)

Modem Setup Information (Internet Indiana)

Modem Speed Test Page

MSN Internet Speed Test

MozFan.info

Mozilla

Mozilla Firefox: Top Tips and Tricks (Sarah Pike, PC Magazine, 1 Jun 2005)

MozillaNews

MPEG Audio Players

MSN Internet Speed Test

Multimedia File Formats on the Internet (Allison Zhang)

MultiOS Browser Test

MURL (My URLs) - Free Online Bookmark Manager

MyBookmarks.com - Access your bookmarks online anytime, anywhere

Navas 28800-56K Modem FAQ (John Navas)

NCSA Mosaic Home Page

NeoTrace (NeoWorx Inc.)

NetAccelerator (IMSI)

NetAction (Audrie Krause & Nathan Newman)

Netcenter Services (Netscape)

NetFactual.com

NetForAll TV

NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary
(Vincent James & Erin Jansen)

Net.Medic (VitalSigns Home Page)

-- Interpreting Net.Medic's Results

Netmeg Internet - The Jargon Dictionary
(Eric Raymond & Matt Magri)

Net Metrics & Statistics Guide (Caslon Analytics)

Netomat (Maciej Wisniewski)

NetPro NorthWest Win95 MaxMTU Fix

Netscape

-- Setting Communicator as Your Default Browser

Netscape Bookmarks Tutorial (Carole Leita)

Netscape Guide

Netscape Technical Support

Netscape Unofficial FAQ (John P. Oliver et al.)

NetSonic Internet Accelerator (Web3000)

Netvibes (San Francisco)

Netvouz - Online Social Bookmark Manager
(Henrik Sjostrand, Gothenburg)

Network Diagnosis

NetZero Free Internet Access

NIC - New Internet Computer

NoAds (Freeware, South Bay Software)

NSLookup Gateway (Patrick McConnell)

The Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research
(ONGIR, Jill Nystrom & Tara Calishain)

OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the WWW (Rainer Wolcke)

Omnibrowser (Godolfin International, Cupertino, California)

Omnidrive: The Universal Storage Platform (Wollongong, New South Wales)

OneWebDay - 22 September (dir. Susan Crawford & Mary Hodder et al.)

The Online Support Center - Index Page

Openly Informatics, Inc. (Eric Hellman et al., Bloomfield, New Jersey)

Opera for Windows

Opera Software

Opera Software (Norway)

-- Opera Widgets

Optimum Online Speed Check

Performance Page (VitalSigns)

Pluck: Your Personal Web Information Center...
(Dave Panos & Andrew Busey, Austin, Texas)

PopUp Killer (Freeware, xFXJumpStart)

Popup Killer (Shareware, Meaya)

Pop-Up Stopper (Freeware, Panicware)

POW! (AnalogX)

Privacy Online with Internet Privacy Software by Enonymous

ProxyTrack (HTTrack Website Copier)

Psiphon (FW, Michael Hull et al., Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto)

Public Proxy Servers

Quickbrowse

RealNetworks, The Home of RealAudio, RealVideo and RealFlash

Relakks - Surf the web anonymously and secure (Jonas Birgersson et al., Sweden)

Research Central - High Bandwidth (Amer Neely)

Rewebber - Privacy in the World Wide Web

RoboForm: Free Web Form Filler and Password Manager

RocketBoard

Rosetta Stone (AltaVista World Index)

Routing Arbiter Statistics (IPMA)

RSSI Interconnections Map (Russian Space Science Internet)

Ruel's PC-TV Net Page (Ruel T. Hernandez)

Ruel's Web TV Net Page

SafeWeb Startpage

Sam Spade (Steve Atkins)

S'cool Tool Web Browser for Students (FW, Greg Cherry)

Scott Schnoll's Unofficial Microsoft Internet Explorer Security FAQ

Seruku (William Grosso)

Self-Organizing Internet Industry (Valdis Krebs)

Shields UP! -- Internet Connection Security Analysis (Steve Gibson)

SIP (Surf in Peace) | ICON Laboratories

SiteMap

SixBrowser

Skype Free Internet Telephony (Niklas Zennström & Janus Friis)

SoftByte Labs (BlackWidow, etc.)

SoftSeek Internet Software

SpeedGuide : Your Guide to Broadband

Speed Test (Bandwidth Place)

Speedy Internet Spreads Slowly (Christopher Stern, Washington Post, 14 Feb 2002)

SpoofStick Home (Phil Libin, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Spread Firefox (Mozilla Foundation)

SpyChecker

SpyOnIt

StayInvisible.com

Stroud's Consummate Internet Apps Software

StumbleUpon (eBay; created by Geoff Smith, Calgary)

SuprGlu (Danny Wen, New York)

SurfSaver Software: The Filing Cabinet for Web Pages (askSam)

SurfSecret

SwapMon Official Homepage (flipTech)

Sympatico HSE Speed Test

Telecommuting (Patricia Figliola Lewis, About.com)

3D-FTP Multi-threaded Transfer Engine

Top Hosts - Guide and Directory of Web Hosts

Tor: anonymity online (Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco)

Traceroute (GeekTools)

TrackEngine

TrackMeNot (Daniel C. Howe & Helen Nissenbaum, NYU)

Tristana: Direct to desktop delivery (Chris Charlwood et al., Charlwood eMarketing, Nelson, BC)

Trouble on the Internet (David L. Margulius, InfoWorld 46:40-48, 24 Nov 2003) PDF

TweakDUN for Windows 95

UBUBU | You Be You Be You

The Ultimate Guide to Internet Service Providers
(Eric Knorr et al., CNET)

UNDP Human Development Index vs Internet Hosts/Capita

VeriSign (WorldNIC, Network Solutions)

Virtual Private Networks (Tom Dunigan)

The Virtual Voice - The Internet Telephony Companion

VisualRoute Home Page

VNC - Virtual Network Computing from AT&T Laboratories Cambridge

VPN Insider -- Superguide to Virtual Private Networks

VPNlabs (Phil McGarr)

WAMPAD Mobile Portal

Webaroo (Rakesh Mathur et al., Sunnyvale, California)

Web-Based Bookmark Managers (Jerry Allen)

Web Browsers OpenFAQ (Thomas Boutell)

WebCopier: Multifunctional Offline Browser (Maxim Klimov)

Web2Mail.com - Delivering the Web to You by Email

Webmonkey Guides: Get on the Web

WebSite-Watcher (Martin Aignesberger, Attnang-Puchheim, Austria)

WebSnake (Intermark Products)

The Web Standards Project: Fighting for Standards in our Browsers

Web Tools -- Web Browsers (Scout Toolkit)

WebTrends Live

WebWasher

WebZIP Offline Browser (Spidersoft)

What is WiFi? (ScamBusters.org)

What makes a good Internet Service Provider?
(Philippe Scheimann)

What's my IP address? (ShowIPaddress.com)

WiFi411 - Global Online WiFi HotSpot Location Directory

WiMAX Forum (Wireless Interoperability for Microwave Access)

Windows 95 TCP/IP Tips (Malcolm Reeves)

WinZip Computing

Workers of the Web, Evolt! -- The evolt.org Browser Archive
(Adrian Roselli)

WorldGate - Internet on Every TV (WorldGate Communications)

World Link: The Network Society Map

The World's Online Populations (CyberAtlas)

Writely - The Web Word Processor (Sam Schillace, Portola Valley, California)

WWW Viewer Test Page

YourSpeed (J. C. Kessels)

Zapper

ZDTV | The On-Air and Online Network Dedicated to the Digital Lifestyle

The Zen Internet Group (Brendan Kehoe et al.)

0Privacy.com

See also Education and the Internet, Holding the Helm: The Internet, Home Connectivity and Electronics, and Telecommunity (Global)

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History of Personal Computing

Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven. Century after century had he toiled, and here was his reward. Truly the garment had seemed heavenly at first, shot with the colours of culture, sewn with the threads of self-denial. And heavenly it had been so long as it was a garment and no more, so long as man could shed it at will and live by the essence that is his soul, and the essence, equally divine, that is his body.

E. M. Forster (from The Machine Stops)

When I want to interact with a computer, I have to wait several minutes after turning it on before it is ready to converse. This is absurd. These machines are supposed to be there for us, not the other way around.

Tim Berners-Lee

Antique Personal Computer Collection (Scott Walde)

Apple Corporate Timeline

Apple II History (Steven Weyhrich)

Apple Lisa Web Page (Tom Stepleton)

The Apple Online Museum

Apple's 1984 Commercial

AtariArchives.org

Atari 8 Bit USENET FAQs

A Brief History of Hackerdom (Eric S. Raymond)

Carl Friend's Computer Collection (Carl R. Friend)

Chronology of Personal Computers (Ken Polsson)

The Coleco Adam Home Page (Dale Wick)

Commodore 8bit Computers: 8bit Emulation FAQ

The Commodore 8-bit WWW Server (Marko Mäkelä)

The Computer Collection (Jay R. Jaeger)

Computer History and Emulation Homepage (Marat Fayzullin)

Computer Use and Ownership (U.S. Census Bureau)

Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer
(Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine, 1984; ed. 2, 1999)

From the Abacus to the Apple: A Timeline of Significant Events in Information and Communication Technology (Bobbi A. Kerlin)

The Gates Operating System (TIME.com)

The Heroic Hacker: Legends of the Computer Age
(Erik Brunvand, 15 Oct 1996)

The Historical Computer Society

The History of Apple Computer (Glen Sanford)

Homebrew Computing Before the PC (Steve Williams, 25 Nov 1999)

Jim Brain's US Commodore 8-bit WWW Site

Jim's Computer Garage (Jim Williey)

Kevan's Computer Bits... (Kevan Heydon)

Lee Felsenstein and the Homebrew Computer Club (Open Collector)

The Machine Room (Alexios Chouchoulas)

Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member (Bob Lash)

Microsoft History

Obsolete Computer Museum (Tom Carlson)

Old-Computers.com

PalmEvolution.com (Dan Royea)

PC Museum (Daniel Lessard)

Personal Computer Milestones (Blinkenlights Archaeological Institute)

Pirates of Silicon Valley, dir. Martyn Burke (Warner Bros., 1999)

Steven Levy Home Page

30 Years of Windows: A Retrospective (Matt Lake, CNET Special Report, 22 Jun 1998)

TRS-80, 20th Anniversary of the (RadioShack)

The TRS-80 Color Computer Homepage (Markus Blumrich)

The UC Davis Computer Museum (U of California at Davis)

Vintage Electronics Have Soul - The Pocket Calculator Show Website

Woz.org (Steve Wozniak)

See also Hackers and Hacktivism, History of Computers, History of the Internet, Timelines, and Y2K

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