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The History of Computing Project
Excellent site with many images - some of the English in this site
is a little curious and I have helped them a little with editing it.
History of Computing
Another comprehensive history - from Computer.org
parc history
"In 1970, Xerox Corporation gathered together a team of world class
researchers and gave them the mission of creating 'the architecture of
information.' The scientists of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) lived
up to this challenge by inventing personal distributed computing,
graphical user interfaces, the first commercial mouse, bit-mapped displays,
Ethernet, client/server architecture, object-oriented programming, laser
printing and many of the basic protocols of the Internet."
History of Computing
Information
A large selection of documents and references gathered by the US Army
Reseach Lab. One of their aims is: "To help the public remember that
it was the U. S. Army which initiated the computer revolution"
Historic Computer
Images
A large selection of photographs held by US Army Reseach Lab.
Brief History
of IT - Rapid Development of Information Solutions
A brief overview of the history of Information Technology from an Informations
System perspective.
Anthony's
History of Information Technology (IT)
A useful time line.
Chronology
of Personal Computers
Another perspective.
Yahoo!
Computers and Internet > History
A large selection of links.
The Dream Machine
A series of videos of programs shown by
BBC in 1991, but still an excellent overview of the history of computing
and the major concepts which ideas which at the heart of IT/IS
(r)evolution - Available in the Bolland AV section (Audiovisual 004) at
Frenchay. I have produced some basic notes on these
videos.
The
PC's silver jubilee
"The revolution that is still shaking the world began 25 years ago.
Jack Schofield looks at the way Bill Gates and others humbled IBM."
A useful article though I would argue that there was no "long-term
aim of introducing a mouse-driven graphical user interface" It was
more a case of Steve Jobs discovering Doug Englebart's work at Xerox parc
and almost immediately adopting the concepts at Apple.
British
triumph is just a memory
"Britain has often led the world in computing - then lost its edge.
Chris Hipwell commemorates the 50th anniversary of what became the first
commercial computer."