History of Computing Foundation's The History of Computing Project
Description of Resource:
The website provides links to a history of hardware, software, videogames, computing companies, biographies, a computing history timeline (300,000 B.C. to the turn of the 21st century), a History of Computing Project store, an icon for a site map, an icon for a search engine for the Computing Project's webpage, and an icon to email site administrators, and links to the History of Computing Foundation's partner organizations. Users can also access a Reference Index for the website, which includes links to at least 100 websites on computing history, and a bibliography of periodicals, newspapers and clippings on the history of computing.
Address:
Netherlands
Contact name:
Fannie de Boer (Chair)
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Is there a fee:
No
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Services:
The History of Computing Project's website is an informational resource only. "The HoCF is not a museum or a virtual museum. Its purpose is to gather information and present it via its web site..... The History of Computing Project [i]s a collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the computer and its roots in the broadest sense of the word. Its founding principle is to work together in as open and cooperative a manner as possible in producing a definitive history and historical archive of computing. Explicit goals are to provide an accurate and balanced history with input from as many sources as possible and maximum access to the results worldwide" (excerpted from The History of Computing Project website).
Public or private:
Public
Website or physical archive:
Website only