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Keith Lynch's timeline of net related terms and concepts

https://keithlynch.net/timeline.html

Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart). 03 1 SQL Slammer (aka Sapphire) worm 04 2 Firefox Browser 05 6 YouTube Please note that just because something was mentioned at a

The Code of the Geeks v3.1 Generator

http://www.joereiss.net/geek/geek.html

business how old I am Computers Computers Most geeks identify themselves by their use of computers and computer networks. In order to quantify your geekiness level on computers, c

MIT Media Laboratory

http://philip.greenspun.com/humor/media-lab.html

holography table by computers, lasers and mirrors spinning at 30,000 RPM. It's real! It works! Life Magazine even came in to photograph it in action (of course, they had to fill t

CD-Recordable FAQ

https://cdrfaq.org/

XP [6-1-64] An Chen Computers - CD Mate [6-1-65] E-Soft - Alcohol [6-1-66] Stomp Inc. - RecordNow MAX [6-1-67] James Mieczkowski - Cheetah CD Burner [6-1-68] Blaze Audio - RipEdit
CD-Recordable FAQ, including CD-R and CD-RW, updated monthly

T E X T F I L E S

http://textfiles.com/sf/

themselves through computers would show some amount of interest in science fiction. Science fiction has always tried to push the boundaries of what people know and think about, an

25 Years of Linux — so far [LWN.net]

https://lwn.net/Articles/698042/

in moving down from minicomputers, had become much more widespread, but it also lost the code-sharing culture that had helped to make it Unix in the first place. The consequences
On August 25, 1991, an obscure student in Finland named Linus Benedict Torvalds posted a messag [...]

An Argument for Web5.0

https://charinusraps.neocities.org/pages/writing/articles/2024-02-20-Web5.0

Unix was born, PDP computers were commonly used, and the first computer games were made on PLATO. Time-sharing was a concept established here too. The average consumer knew nothin

Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ: Home Page

http://repairfaq.org/

20,000 articles to the USENET newsgroups using my true email address. (And, you won't pick up SPAM via private email anyhow.) Yes, SPAM is a pain but I tolerate the small amount I

Notes on the Troubleshooting and Repair of Computer and Video Monitors

http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/monfaq.htm

the early days of small computers, a 110 baud teletype with a personal paper tape reader was the 'preferred' input-output device (meaning that this was a great improvement over pu

Scientology v. the Internet

https://www.discord.org/lippard/skeptic/03.3.jl-jj-scientology.html

network of interlinked computers, has given individuals the power to obtain information on virtually any subject from all over the world. It has also put into their hands the abil

Inside the Court

https://www.spectacle.org/cda/cdaheari.html

know very much about computers (though Judge Sloviter remarked that two out of three of them were Mac users). Duval began by explaining that "Just because a parent has bought a co

RFC 1480: The US Domain

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1480

In the past, the computers registered in the US Domain were primarily owned by small companies or individuals with computers at home. However, the US Domain has grown and currentl


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