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Alphabetical List of Programming Languages

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A single-page alphabetical compendium of programming languages, with brief descriptions largely excerpted from other resource pages and links to further information for each language. Hosted on a personal home page (home.nvg.org/~sk) rather than an official university site, it functions as an enthusiast-maintained index rather than a formal academic project.
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Website http://home.nvg.org/~sk/lang/lang.html
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Apple Museum

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EveryMac.com, established in 1996, is a reference site providing detailed specifications, configuration options, upgrade information, device identifiers, benchmarks, and global pricing for every Mac model from 1984 to present, as well as iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and other Apple devices. It offers tools to look up, compare, and sort Macs by series, year, processor, case type, and identifier, along with FAQs and historical notes. The site describes itself as handcrafted and maintained through original hands-on research and testing.
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Website https://everymac.com/
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Hobbes' Internet Timeline 10.1

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Hobbes' Internet Timeline is a detailed, year-by-year chronology of the Internet's development compiled by Robert H. Zakon, tracing events from the 1957 launch of Sputnik and the creation of ARPA through the ARPANET's founding nodes, protocols, and key milestones into the 2010s. The site documents technical developments (packet switching, the first RFCs, the first ARPANET nodes and email) alongside organizational and growth milestones, with sources and notes cited throughout. It functions as a long-running, individually maintained reference work rather than an institutional archive.
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Website https://zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
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Computer History Images

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Lawrence A. Crowl's personal webpage featuring a curated set of images and brief notes on historical computers, including the Difference Engine, ENIAC, IBM SSEC and 360, and various DEC machines like the PDP-1, PDP-6, PDP-8, PDP-11, and VAX 11/780. The page also links out to other computing history resources such as the Charles Babbage Institute, Paul Pierce's Computer Collection, and J.A.N. Lee's History of Computing. It appears to be a static, unmaintained page dating from 1996.
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Website http://crowl.org/Lawrence/history/
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Solaris History

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Solaris History is a page within the one-person Softpanorama site that compiles notes on the evolution of SunOS and Solaris, including Sun's hardware timeline (Sun-1 through later SPARC/UltraSPARC systems), the AT&T partnership that produced SVR4, and links to related timelines, books, and newsgroups. It is written and maintained by a single enthusiast rather than an institution, drawing on sources like Wikipedia and Usenet.
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Website https://softpanorama.org/Solaris/solaris_history.shtml
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Apple ][ History

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Apple II History is a long-running personal website chronicling the Apple II computer line, first published in 1991 and continuously updated since. It presents its content as a chapter-based history alongside a blog covering Apple II, Apple-1, and related topics such as magazines, KansasFest, and podcasts.
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Website https://www.apple2history.org/history/
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Apple History Timeline

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The Apple Museum is a personal website created by an individual enthusiast (hosted by Dr. Bott) cataloguing the history of Apple Computer's people and products. It includes an encyclopedia of Apple computers, historical essays, product and code-name lists, timelines, and an image gallery of hardware, people, and OS screenshots. The site was started in 1997 as a hobbyist reference project and is maintained by its founder, Andy F. Mesa.
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Website http://applemuseum.bott.org/
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Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook

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This website is maintained by biographer Andrew Hodges as an electronic extension of his biography Alan Turing: The Enigma. It offers a chronological life timeline, Hodges' own publications and papers, scans/transcripts of original Turing documents, archives and photographs, and informal 'scrapbook' pages on topics like the Turing machine, Enigma cryptanalysis, and the Turing Test.
Edited by Aaron Sylvan
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Website https://turing.org.uk/
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Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation

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SMECC is a privately funded museum based in Glendale, Arizona, run by a small volunteer/archivist staff, preserving artifacts and documents related to engineering, communications, broadcasting, and computing history. Its physical location houses exhibits on topics like TTY/TDD technology, radar, telecommunications, and early computers, with limited public hours by appointment. The site hosts an extensive collection of articles, photographs, and historical documents on topics ranging from Bell Labs to Nike missile sites to early computing companies.
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Website http://smecc.org/
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Dartmouth Time Sharing System

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A volunteer-run project by 'friends of DTSS' to recreate and emulate the original Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (Phase I, 1964-1967), which ran BASIC and Algol on GE-235/DN-30 hardware. The site hosts scanned source listings, transcribed and assembled code, emulators for Mac and Windows, manuals, and a forum for enthusiasts. It documents the hands-on effort by former participants to locate original software listings and rebuild working simulations.
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Website https://dtss.dartmouth.edu/
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