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The History of Computing Project
http://www.thocp.net
Information about computer pioneers, software, hardware, and companies. An informative timeline can also be located here.
History of Computers: A Brief Timeline
https://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html
Shares information, from events in 1801 to 2017.
An Illustrated History of Computers
http://www.computersciencelab.com/ComputerHistory/History.htm
A concise history of computers accompanied by photographs and illustrations.
The Modern History of Computing
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, these entries give information from Charles Babbag to the first high speed computer. Includes references and citations
Smithsonian Computer History
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist
As an online presentation of the exhibit Information Age: People, Information and Technology, this page contains reference materials such as press releases for the ENIAC computer, pictures of computers and related parts, and interviews with computer pioneers.
Timeline of Computer History
https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/
From 1937 to 2015, this website gives short discriptions of important progress in computer science.
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