- I have a separate page for sites related to Covid-19
- Project Venona – How the NSA thwarted an “unbreakable” Soviet cipher system. The original NSA article that I referenced here has been replaced by the link above. This new link has both more and less information than the original; more in that it lists 100 (partially) decrypted intercepts; less in that there is not as much detail about the nature of the system that the Soviets used and how the U.S. broke it. Luckily, that information is available on Wikipedia.
- I have always wondered what all those Italian tempo markings in music really meant. Wikipedia has the answer.
- Watson and Crick’s original paper on the structure of DNA.
- The world’s first web site: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
- History of San Francisco Place Names
- Japanese Language Pronunciation
- Videos
- My YouTube Favorites Playlist
- Videos I have Made
- Greenmeadow Videos
- Eclipse 2017
- IBM 1401
- India 2012
- Final Edit
- Raw Camera Footage
- CS50 – Amazing intro to Computer Science (Harvard)
- International Space Station
- Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spin
- Alexa as HAL-9000
- HAL-9000 as Alexa
- www.ted.com
- Ben Eater’s Tutorial on building an 8-bit computer
- Apollo 11
- Computer History Videos
- (Most of the following are YouTube videos. Those can also be found on this playlist.
- There is also a playlist for computer terminals.
- Make Software: Change the World!
- Eniac
- IBM 704
- IBM 1620 Demo
- Early RCA Computers
- RCA 501
- Early Burroughs Computers
- Early IBM Computers
- Mother of all Demos (Engelbart introduces the mouse)
- Demo of Sketchpad (early graphics program)
- Another Sketchpad Demo
- Dynabook Demo (Alan Kay’s idea of a personal computer)
- Xerox Star Demo
- Lisa Demo
- Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh
- Windows 3 Demo
- First Web Browsers
- Most Popular Operating Systems
- Computer History Documents
- Explanation of Binary Arithmetic by Gottfried Leibniz
- The Calculus of Logic by George Boole where what came to be known as “Boolean Algebra” was first described.
- Ada, Countess of Lovelace’s notes on a article she translated regarding Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine. (The notes are longer than the translated article and considered to be a better (perhaps the best) description of the Analytical Engine. )
- On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the EntscheidungsProblem by Alan Turing (Turing’s famous paper in which he first describes an abstract “computing machine” that became known as the “Turing machine”.
- Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing. (Turing’s other famous paper on a test for artificial intelligence that came be known as the “Turing Test”.
- A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits by Claude Shannon The first proposal to use Boolean Algebra in the construction of electronic circuits. This has become the bases of all computer logic circuits. This was Shannon’s master’s thesis. It has been called “the most important master’s thesis of the 20th century–perhaps of all time.”
- As We May Think Vannevar Bush’s predictions about future machines to store human knowledge.
- A Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon. This is the original and highly influential document on Information Theory. (Available on Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Mathematical-Theory-Communication-Claude-Shannon-ebook/dp/B00VVH4UE8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+mathematical+theory+of+communication&qid=1576690352&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 )
- First Draft of the Report on the EDVAC by John von Neumann This is the document that first describes the concept of storing a computer program in the same memory used to store the computer’s data.
- On the Evolution of Unix and the Automation of Telephone Support Operations (i.e. of Computer Automation) by Ronda Hauben – An early history of Unix
- Pendery Papers – Xerox PARC’s manifesto on the future of computing
- Man Computer Symbiosis by J. C. R. Licklider An early document on user interfaces by the man who came to lead ARPA during the advent of the ARPANet, forerunner of Ethernet.
- Augmenting Human Intellect, A Conceptual Framework, by Douglas Engelbart.
- Description of NLS (oN-Line System) from SRI This is the User’s Guide for the system that Douglas Engelbart introduced in the “Mother of all Demos” (See the video above.)
- Apple I Manual
- Xerox Alto User’s Handbook
- Introduction and Overview of the Multics System
- Multics, the First Seven Years
- A General-Purpose File System For Secondary Storage, a description of the Multics file system.
- Bibliography of Multics documentation
- Cramming more components onto integrated circuits, Gordon Moore’s paper introducing “Moore’s Law”
- Archive of text documents
- Timeline of Operating Systems
- Time-sharing System Evolution
- See also “Who Invented the Computer“.
- Network Speed Tests
- Beep
- Barry Smylie
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us
- Bay Area Transit Information
- Space Science and Science Fiction
- Hybrid cars (I currently own Toyota Prii.)
- Japanese Music
- Indian Music
- Grameen Bank
- Powers of 10
- How Stanford’s Desire for a Booze-free Town Gave Birth to Palo Alto