The following work in progress lists WWW resources that relate (either directly, or indirectly) to the content for this section

Historical (Hysterical) Development of Computers

• http://www.llcc.il.us/dbeverid/history.htm
• http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/index.html
• A Short History of the Computer by Jeremy Meyers
• A Brief History of Computing Devices by Denis Beveridge
• A Chronology of Events in the Development of the Modern Computer by Ken Polsson
• Marshall Brain's How Stuff Works - Computers and the Internet
• Internet History
• Computer Development timeline

Nerdy News

• Slashdot - news for nerds, stuff that matters
• ThinkGeek - stuff for the smart masses
• Geeknic - don't laugh at us geeks, we run the world
• others?
• Number systems and conversions
• Zgeek

Operating Systems

• FreeBSD UNIX from Berkley Systems Design
• Micro$oft Windows
• Apple Mac OSX
• Linux UNIX
• IRIX from Silicon Graphics
• others?

Telecommunications

• http://www.telecom.tbi.net/
• Telecommunications Corner by Jared Hall
• Marshall Brain's How Stuff Works - Electronics and Telecommunication

Filename extensions

• http://www.silicon-alley.com/ext/index.html

Graphics formats

• http://www.dreamartists.com/gfxfmts.htm

Sound formats

• http://www.soundorama.com/formats.html

Scratch and Sniff Protocols (OTP- Olfactory Transport Protocol)

• http://www.rru.com/webodor/

Encyclopaedia of computer terms

• http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.cgi
• http://www.pcwebopaedia.com

Memory technology

• http://www.intel.com/intel/intelis/museum/memory_final/flat/1.htm

Computing with molecules

• http://www.sciam.com/2000/0600issue/0600reed.html

Zip drives

• http://www.iomega.com/zip/index.html

Hard disk dives (capacities, speed, cost etc)

• http://www.seagate.com

CD-ROMs and CD-Rs

• http://www.mitsumi.com

CD-R and CD-RW drives (HP)

• http://www.hpcdwriter.com/products/compare/

Tape drives

• http://www.exabyte.com/home/prodsol.html

Connectors, buses, ports

• http://www.hardwarebook.net/menu_Connector.html

Flash memory cards

• http://www.ddktaipei.com/modem/Card/Card.htm

Ethernet

• http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/

TCP/IP

• http://www.learning.lib.vt.edu/wintcpip/wintcpip.html

Fibre Optics

• http://www.lascomm.com/tutorial.htm

Latest viruses

• http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html

Virus hoaxes

• http://www.datafellows.com/hoaxes/hoax_new.shtml

Benchmark software

• http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pclabs/bench/winbench99.html

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