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Museum of the USSR Computers History
A virtual museum containing historical information on computers and computer facilities in the USSR. Includes descriptions of computers, their characteristics, pictures, and personalities.
http://www.bashedu.ru/konkurs/tarhov/english/index_e.htm
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The History of Computing Science: From the Past to the Present
Lecture presented by Michelle A. Hoyle explaining how computers and computing science arose from using sticks with notches for counting, to the massive explosion of personal computers in the 1980s.
http://lecture.eingang.org/
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Punched Cards
Covers the earliest ways of encoding data up to the cards used in voting systems today.
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/index.html
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The Obsolete Technology Website
Pictures, documents, and advertisements of classic computers from the 1970's and 1980's.
http://oldcomputers.net
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Jargon File Resources
The Jargon File (AKA, _The New Hacker's Dictionary_) is an essential repository of computer historical information.
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/
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The History of Computing
Detailed information including early pioneers and companies, archives, languages, and networking from the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/
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Reflections of a ModemJunkie
Writings on computers, the early online world, and the Internet, dating from 1992 to 2000.
http://www.lgrossman.com/mjnk/
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Tools For Thought
by Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of computing; includes Babbage, Turing, von Neumann, Engelbart, PARC, Kay, and Atari.
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/
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Computer History Museum
Focuses exclusively on the history of computing. Located in Mountain View, California. Search the collection, illustrated timeline, online exhibits and select images from the collection, "This Day in History," curator's choice, and the Hall
http://computerhistory.org
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The Modern History of Computing
Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/
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