My Portal: Directory

A Brief History of Computers, As Seen in Old TV Ads - (83 visits)

Connecting the Clouds - the Internet in New Zealand (10 visits)

Folklore.org - Macintosh Stories (122 visits)

How It Works...The Computer - Scans of Ladybird book with original 1971 and revised 1979 editions (119 visits)

Remembering Netscape: The Birth of the Web - "For the tenth anniversary of its IPO, FORTUNE recruited dozens of players to tell, in their own words, the story of the startup brought us into the Internet era." (126 visits)

The 30 Products and Services We Miss Most - PC World editors fondly remember some of their technology favorites from bygone eras. (135 visits)

The 3Com saga - One-time industry pillar hits 25. (359 visits)

The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time - "From breakthrough hardware to time-honored software, we salute those amazing products that changed technology--and our lives--forever." (112 visits)

The Scourge of Arial - How Arial was cloned from Helvetica and how to spot it (106 visits)

The Secret Weapons of Commodore - Details of rare and unreleased Commodore projects (92 visits)

The Software Behind the Mars Phoenix Lander - What kind of software does it take to send a 700+ pound device millions of miles away to land safely on another planet? Peter Gluck is the project software engineer for the Mars Phoenix lander mission. In this interview with O'Reilly News, he describes how rocket scientists write and manage code, and why you're not likely to see NASA's source code any time soon. (22 visits)