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Making the Modern World Online
http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/
Making the Modern World Online is a groundbreaking initiative in web learning, based on the Science Museum's landmark gallery Making the Modern World. Funded by the Invest to Save Budget (ISB) and taking two years to complete, MMW-Online is an unprecedented collaboration between the Science Museum, Peter Symonds College and Mackenzie Ward Research (mwr)
MMW-Online carries a timeline of powerful stories about the world we have made through science and invention. From Stephenson's Rocket locomotive to the Apollo 10 space capsule, from medicine to the machine gun, these stories show how our lives are shaped by the things we make, invent and use.
Some great ICT history information ... but you may have to dig for it.

Education at Bletchley Park
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/
Education at Bletchley Park
In addition to the main exhibition area that tells the story of Bletchley Park and the cracking of Enigma, there are also a number of specialist collections for your students to see, study and enjoy.

Retro Computer Gallery
http://www.imarshall.karoo.net/
Retro Computer Gallery

Internet Predictions Database
http://www.elon.edu/predictions/
The Imagining the Internet Predictions Database examines the potential future of the Internet while simultaneously providing a peek back into its history.
We invite you to navigate through three useful resource areas that: illuminate the views of stakeholders - The Experts Survey; give an historic overview - The 1990 to 1995 Predictions; and allow your participation - Share Your Vision Today.

The computer age dawns : the secret pioneers
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The computer age dawns : the secret pioneers
Some of the boldest early steps into the computer age were taken in Britain. Alan Turing, the father of modern computing, did his main work at Cambridge University before joining the team of code-breakers at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes. Soon afterwards the code breakers enlisted another unlikely recruit... a Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers, who was to play a crucial role in the development of modern computing.
| The computer age dawns | First electronic computer | Colossus | Colossus Mk II | Top secret | Sir John Ambrose Fleming | Konrad Zuse - experimental computer | The building of SIGSALY |

Computer Museum of America
http://www.computer-museum.org/
Computer Museum of America
The Computer Museum of America was established in 1983 by Jim and Marie Petroff, founders of the San Diego Chapter of Independent Computer Consultants Association (ICCA).
While without a display space in its early years, through the efforts of a tireless band of volunteers the Museum continued to collect and preserve historic computer equipment, as well as display portions of its collection every year at the California Computer Expo (formerly the San Diego Computer Fair).

The Home Computer of the Future ... as Imagined in 1954
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The Home Computer of the Future ... as Imagined in 1954
From Popular Mechanics, 1954: "Scientists from the RAND corporation have created this model to illustrate how a 'Home Computer' could look like in the year 2004. However, the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems."
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A brief history of the Internet
http://www.netlingo.com/lookup.cfm?term=Internet
A brief history of the Internet at Netlingo

The Edsac Simulator
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/
The Edsac Simulator
The EDSAC was the world's first stored-program computer to operate a regular computing service. Designed and built at Cambridge University, England, the EDSAC performed its first calculation on 6th May 1949.

Obsolete Computer Museum
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/
Obsolete Computer Museum

History of Computing Science
http://www.eingang.org/Lecture/
History of Computing Science : These lectures are usually designed as study-guides for students, but can make really interesting surfing for anyone.
Welcome to Calypso's Lecture Series for CS-100. The first (and only) lecture in the series is about the history of computing from the past to the present. This offers the student or casual browser an overview of the advances in science that made desktop computers possible starting with the invention of counting.

The Computer History Museum
http://www.computerhistory.org/
The Computer History Museum is the world's largest and most significant history museum for preserving and presenting the computing revolution and its impact on the human experience. It allows you to discover how computing became the amplifier for our minds and changed the way we work, live and play. We hope your visit will be educational and entertaining and that the legacy of these innovations live on to inspire others.

New Media Timeline 1969 to 1998
http://www.poynterextra.org/extra/Timeline/index.htm
New Media Timeline 1969 to 1998
Our timeline looks at the history of new media journalism and the Internet, beginning in 1969 and continuing through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Because the history of new media journalism is such a complex story, we are presenting it in two parts, with parallel sections on "Technology" and "The Media."

Classic Computer Magazine Archive
http://www.atarimagazines.com/
Classic Computer Magazine Archive - his site presents the full text of early personal computing magazines, including images and advertisements.

History of the Computer - Timeline
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/timeline/index.html
History of the Computer - Timeline

Triumph of the Nerds
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/
Triumph of the Nerds
PBS Online is proud to present the companion Web site for the PBS television special "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires." On television and the Internet, you can learn in vivid detail how youthful amateurs, hippies and self-proclaimed "nerds" accidentally changed the world.

Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Information Technology: Computers
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/techhistory.htm
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Information Technology: Computers
Information Age centers on the technical evolution of electrical and electronic information technology. The telegraph began a revolution in communications by transmitting information in electrical form instantly to distant locations. This new phenomenon of instant information was later expanded by the telephone, radio and television. Then the digital electronic computer made it possible to process information instantly. As the computer developed and matured, communication and processing technologies were joined into networks that now stretch around the world, affecting all areas of global society.

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View California
http://www.computerhistory.org/index.page
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View California
This site provides online resources for the computer history researcher. It includes a timeline of computer technology, an artifact database, a document archive, and online exhibits.

The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMOC)
http://vmoc.museophile.org/
The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMOC)
This virtual museum includes an eclectic collection of World Wide Web (WWW) hyperlinks connected with the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits available both locally and around the world. This museum opened on 1st June 1995. The museum receives about 200 visitors each day.

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
http://www.computer.org/annals/
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing: IEEE Computer Society
The IEEE Computer Society provides, free of charge, selected articles from the Annals of the History of Computing. Access to the full collection requires a subscription or an E-account. The digital archives go back to 1979.

Time line of Computing History: IEEE Computer Society
http://www.computer.org/computer/Timeline/
Time line of Computing History: IEEE Computer Society
This timeline, from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society, traces the evolution of computer and computing technology. The timeline is sixty-eight pages long, and includes graphics.

The Computer Chronicles
http://www.archive.org/movies/computerchronicles.php
Hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles is the world's most popular television program on personal technology. Currently in its 19th broadcast season (2002), the show is viewed by over 1 million people on nearly 300 stations in the United States and over 100 countries worldwide!
The series covers high-tech subjects around the world, having shot programs in such various locations as France, Israel, Scotland, India, Taiwan, Japan, Hungary, Germany, and Hong Kong. Computer Chronicles is also videotaped on location in San Francisco and in Silicon Valley areas.
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Electronic Brains : Radio 4 Series
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/electronicbrains.shtml
Electronic Brains .. listen online
A series of 4 programmes which tells the stories of some of the computer pioneers in Britain, America and the Ukraine. Each is a little cameo of social history of the early postwar years half a century ago, from a time when "everything you did was new, no-one had ever done it before".
Fifty years ago the great catering company J Lyons, best known for its Teashops and Corner Houses, ran the world's first real business computer program, calculating the value of its bakery sales. Astonishingly Lyons had also developed and built the computer itself, and it gave it the playful name of "LEO" - short for Lyons Electronic Office.
Across the Atlantic, two rival teams were developing their own business computers, shortly to become famous as the "Univacs", the name that came to mean "computer" in 50's America. One group worked in an old barn, overlooked by an ancient stuffed moose.