Computing History
How we got here, with screenshots.
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The museum in Mountain View, online: exhibits, oral histories, source code releases of the programs that made the machines matter.
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Stories from the people who built the original Macintosh, told by them, one anecdote per page. The best office memoir ever written as a website.
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An internet standard for sending data packets by pigeon, published 1990, implemented in 2001 (Bergen, Norway; nine packets; 55% loss). The Institute considers this the finest paper in the field.
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A directory of bulletin board systems still running, reachable over telnet. Hundreds of them. Door games, message bases, sysops who answer.
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A contest, since 1984, for the most unreadable working C program. Winners include a flight simulator shaped like an airplane. Yes.
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The hacker's dictionary, grown since 1975: what 'foo' means, why there is a 'bar', what a 'bogon' is. Read the glossary like a novel.