Recommended Web Sites

The history of the internet in five chapters, beginning with the industrial revolution and tracking the progress through to modern-day technology.

An international collection of computer science technical reports from CS departments and industrial and government research laboratories made available for non-commercial and educational use.

The Institutions listed here provide either full-text reports or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports on the Internet. This site contains links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds.

This Virtual Archive contains digital facsimiles of documents forming the historical record of the development of computing. The Archive places the history of computing, as told by the original documents, onto your own computer screen.

A free online dictionary for words, phrases, and abbreviations related to computer and Internet technology provides easy-to-understand definitions in plain language, avoiding heavy jargon when possible so that the site is accessible to users with a wide range of computer knowledge.

An unabridged, online version of the "Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites," by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton.