A not-for-profit educational resource which streams science programmes and is used as teaching and research resource. Includes in-depth interviews with Nobel Laureates and eminent scientists such as Max Perutz, Joseph Rotblat and Gustav Born; distance learning modules.
The Apple II was officially introduced at the First West Coast Computer Faire in April 1977, one of the very first trade shows dedicated to the newly emerging microcomputing industry. I loved the Computer Faires because they were attended by passionate hobbyists in the days before commercial forces completely dominated.
In April 1981, a few members of the Mac team took off the afternoon and drove up to San Francisco to visit the seventh West Coast Computer Faire at Brooks Hall. The biggest splash at the show was the unveiling of the Osborne I, from a brand new company named Osborne Computer, which was touted as the world's first portable computer.
Folklore.org is an online history collecting site that allows users to view stories, rate and add comments to these stories, and create stories of their own. The site serves as both an archive of popular histories and a facilitator of new collecting projects. The only project hosted as of yet is about the original Macintosh development team.
Folklore.org is an online history collecting site that allows users to view stories, rate and add comments to these stories, and create stories of their own. The site serves as both an archive of popular histories and a facilitator of new collecting projects.
Currently, the only project hosted by the Folklore.com site is a collection of stories about the original Macintosh development team. This project served to launch the site and attract users, so most of the stories are written by Andy Hertzfeld, who is also the author and designer of the site. Hertzfield chose the Macintosh history as a starting point because he says, it was “the most important event that I played a part in.” Although the site has not yet benefited from a large group of contributors, there is a significant body of information contained in more than a hundred entries ranging from 200 to more than 1500 words. The stories are searchable, and cross referenced in categories such as “software design,” “bugs,” “personality clashes,” and “marketing.” The stories are well written, and in some cases, the comments add richly to the original content.
The Folklore.org site is not limited to Macintosh or computing history. New projects will eventually be added as the site expands. Users can propose projects for which they would like to act as editor, and if accepted, the Folklore.com administrators will help set the project. Users can also add their own stories to any current project by creating an account and obtaining a username. This process is quick and simple, requiring no additional information besides a name and email address. Once logged into an account, the user can create stories using an automated form; however, the site administrators retain a large amount of editorial control by approving or rejecting stories before they are published on the site. Comments posted to existing stories also undergo an approval process, although a user does not need an account name to post comments or submit ratings. Additionally, the site maintains a RSS feed so that users can be notified of new postings and updates.
Although the Folklore.com site is helpful for its stories alone, it also promises to contribute to the online collecting effort through the software Andy Hertzfeld developed to run the site. The software is a set of CGI scripts written in Python, and after it is stabilized sufficiently, Hertzfield plans to release it as an open-source download that other online collectors can install on their own servers. Collectors will have to have some technical savvy, but the scripts should facilitate the collection of popular history on user-friendly, easily customized sites.
Miles Travis
George Mason University
April 25, 2005
The Civic Education Project (CEP), an international non-profit organization, has supported grassroots efforts to reform higher education in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia since 1991. In 2004 CEP completed its work in Europe and Eurasia and is now taking its highly successful programs to other world regions.
Centered on the belief that democracy requires critically minded and informed individuals, CEP’s network of scholars touches hundreds of students, faculty, and broader communities in the areas in which they teach.
CEP’s diversity and flexibility allow it to be a fluid organization, which responds quickly to the needs and trends of higher education in the former communist region. This website reflects those attributes and, like CEP, should be used as a tool and resource for those participating or interested in higher education.
This digital memory bank seeks to garner the experiences and recollections of those who have been involved with the Civic Education Project. A simple form allows users to record their memories, which can then be browsed. As of writing several substantial entries had been made.
Welcome to JAHC
This is the home page for the Journal of the Association for History and Computing. The Journal of the Association of History and Computing is a fully peer-reviewed journal and started online publication in June of 1998.
This site is the online home of the Journal of the Association for History and Computing. The site offers free access to the current edition of the journal as well as back issues. The Journal covers a wide range of topics dealing with changes computers and new technologies have brought to historical professions. One of the most unique and helpful contributions of the Journal is its reviews of E-Journals and E-resources, a body of work which is often ignored or underutilized. The site is updated three times annually in the winter, spring, and fall.
A general index of topics is provided in the box below. Click the topic of your interest. Users interested in a particular person, place, or topic are also reminded to use the 'Search' or 'Find' function found under 'Edit'.
This site contains an extensive list of links to sites dealing with a wide range of history of science topics. The sites are grouped by topic from general introductions to libraries and graduate student resources. Along with typical web resources, some of the listings here include sources that may be included less often on other link pages: for example, links to listserves and chat pages.
This is a site where individuals or groups can create their own history projects. It is a great way to archive and preserve things for future generations to enjoy and learn from. It is our goal to create a collaborative record of past events using the entries of all of our members. The more entries you make the bigger impact you will have on the project. You can use Club Historian to document the history of your country, state, city, town, school, group, class, club or team. You can even create an oral history project or a history project about yourself. This is a chance to record history as you see it.
History is happening right now! Start documenting it today!
This site offers free accounts which users can use to document a historical narrative with text, images, and audio. An excellent resource for elementary and high school students seeking to create and publish digital history projects.
These pages are an on-line museum celebrating Babbage's Analytical Engine. Here you will find a collection of original historical documents tracing the evolution of the Engine from the original concept through concrete design, ending in disappointment when it became clear it would never be built. You'll see concepts used every day in the design and programming of modern computers described for the very first time, often in a manner more lucid than contemporary expositions. You'll get a sense of how mathematics, science, and technology felt in the nineteenth century, and for the elegant language used in discussing those disciplines, and thereby peek into the personalities of the first computer engineer and programmer our species managed to produce. If you are their intellectual heir, perhaps you'll see yourself and your own work through their Victorian eyes.
This virtual museum and archive preserves and shares the history and historic records of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and of the securities industry from the 1930s to the present. It includes a wide range of primary materials, including a timeline, papers, photos, oral histories and original programs broadcast from this site, which contribute to the understanding of how the SEC has shaped and continues to shape U.S. and international capital markets.
The Securities and Exchange Comission Historical Society's virtual museum and archive provides a great deal of information and hosts a large amount of primary source material. A timeline presents major events in SEC and US history since the stock market crash through the 1980's. There are a number of papers and publications from individuals and the government available for download in a PDF format, and several hundred photos organized by person. Extensive oral histories with more than 25 individuals and more than 5 roundtables are available as transcripts, audio files, or in some cases video files. The online programs hosted by the historical society are produced frequently and archived on the site as well.
This archive combines a series of New York Times archival articles outlining the evolution of manufacturing with an overview of Peoplesoft's role in continuing progress in the manufacturing field.
For more than a decade we've been collecting books, films and interviews on the histories of industries, companies, executives, products/services, economics, scandals and business fiction. And we've gathered essential books on management's investing, financing and operating decisions. The result: the largest multimedia collection of business histories and management titles available anywhere. Entries are organized by subject, company, year and author.
