Computing and Networking in the fringes
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Computing
Uncommon Computing
Eric's Slide Rule Site
The Old Calculator Web Museum
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Calculator Watches
Pseudo-Victorian Flat-Panel LCD mod
Mirror Sites and Consolidated Information on Retro Computers
Re-discover Old Computers
The Personal Computer Museum
The Life and Death of DEC
Mini-Mainframe Resources
Cray SuperComputer Museum
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Free online Cray SuperComputer access
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Punched Cards
Historical BBS List
The Poqet PC
HTML Games
(WebTV/MSNTV compatible games)
WebTV Power-Off Codes
Just say NO to Microsoft
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What data Windows 10 sends to Microsoft, and how to stop it
Open Office Extensions
How To Create A CSV File
A Web Server running on an Alpha Micro
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Gaby's Homepage for CP/M
Best of DOS
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Chinese mods for DOS
The Father of DOS
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"VisiCalc"
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"Visi On", the first PC GUI
Dead Drops
Hacking Skill Tests
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The IBM Redbooks
Classic Computer Science Books
PC Basics
IP Addresses
Microprocessor Specifications
Programming Language Jobs and Trends
Top 13 Most Absurd Programming Languages
(just for fun)
The "Hello World" Collection
History of the GUI
DOS Fallacies
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Disable Windows 10 Tracking
Introduction to Modern PC Memory
Download more RAM!
(just for fun)
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Memory Timings Explained
The "Northwood" Intel Pentium 4 processor
Technical x86 processor information
Silent PC review
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Effective Passive Hard Drive Cooling
USB Flash Drives
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DOS USB/FireWire support
Weird USB drives
(just for fun)
"autorun.inf" Tutorial
About the MP3 format
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Audio Compression
Sound Card Chips
The ID3v1 MP3 Tag
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The ID3v2 MP3 Tag
The Reference Index
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Extended ASCII Codes
Converting DOS Batch Files to Shell Scripts
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Command Line Reference
Delete using the Windows 11 command line
Add a Program to Startup in Windows 10
Interrupt Jump Table
MIME
What exactly is Freeware?
Open Source Definition
Free Software Definition
Debian Free Software Guidelines
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Desert Island Test, Dissident Test, and Tentacles of Evil Test
Replacement Docs
Thousands of Free Fonts
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More Free Fonts
Free Screensavers
Free Desktop Backgrounds
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How to Save Windows Spotlight Images
Free
Win11 Software
(note: newer versions may be available)
4K Video Downloader
4K YouTube to MP3
7-Zip
Audacity
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Lame plugin
CCleaner Free
CDex
Cute Video Cutter Free Version
Defender Control
DOSBox-X
Emsisoft Emergency Kit
FileZilla Client
Free PDF Metadata Editor
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Ghostscript
ImgBurn
IrfanView
[including plugins]
Jarte
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MS Office Compatibility Pack plugin
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Java
Kodi
LibreOffice
LosslessCut
Mp3tag
MPC-BE
O&O ShutUp10++
OBS Studio
Pdf995
[entire suite]
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PDFCreator FREE
SpywareBlaster
Thunderbird
TinyWall
Vivaldi
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Disable HTML5 Autoplay extension
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uBlock Origin extension
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WinPcap
WonderFox DVD Video Converter
WordWeb Free
Networking
Offbeat Internet
The NLnet Foundation
The battle for Internet freedom isn't over yet
Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
Join in a Distributed Computing math project
Help analyze radio telescope data with SETI@home
Combat archeological looting with GlobalXplorer
Identify animals with Snapshot Serengeti
Networking Software
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Do-it with Telnet
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Why Misplaced Usenet Binaries Suck
10 Sites to Send Free (SMS) Text Messages to Cell Phones
How to send a text message from your email account
How NOT to get an E-mail virus
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Flame Warriors
(just for fun)
Send an Anonymous Email
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World Anonymous FTP sites
historical WAIS Announcement video
Gopher Protocol
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The Internet Publishing Handbook
History of the Internet for Historians
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Internet Census 2012
NsLookup
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Line Quality Test
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Connection Speed Test
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Modem Speed Test
DNS Propagation Check
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OpenNIC Public Servers
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Testing:
A website with an OpenNIC address
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Root Zone Database
Find the geographic location of an IP address
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Free Wi-Fi Hotspots
How to connect to the MBone
Coral Content Distribution Network
[.nyud.net]
Anonymous Internet Surfing HOWTO
Discover your IP address
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Test your IPv6 connectivity
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Test your Connection Speed
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The World Wide Web
IP Address and More
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NSA surveillance: A guide to staying secure
A History of Search Engines
Dead Link Checker
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SEO Service Glossary
Lessons in Critically Evaluating Websites
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How to Evaluate Web Resources
Frequently Asked Website Questions
Current Issues in Web Usability
The Second Acid TEST
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TEST a website's performance
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HTML5 TEST
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Everything WebTV
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WebTV specific HTML
Browser Neutral Design Tips
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Is Navigation useful?
Technical website design considerations
Viewable With Any Browser Campaign
Website Trust Rating
$
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Website Worth Calculator
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(just for fun)
Recreation of the very first Website
Lynx Viewer
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Browser Statistics
Firefox "about:config" entries
Web browsers should preserve the file system Last-Modified time of downloaded files
640 x 480 isn't dead just yet
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Standard Banner Ad Sizes
Writing effective ALT text for images
What is a "fav" Icon?
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Generate "fav" Icons
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ISO Latin 1 overview
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Serif vs. San Serif legibility comparison
URL Encoding
CSS FAQ
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CSS rendering problems and workarounds
HTML Codes Table
Special Entity HTML Codes
"robots.txt" Tutorial
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"robots.txt" Checker
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A Dictionary of HTML META Tags
View HTTP Request and Response Header
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The strange saga of Yahoo and WebRing
Social Bookmarking Sites
What is a podcast?
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RSS
Internet Pornography Statistics
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Adult Web Hosting Providers
Internet Acronyms Dictionary
Internet Marketing and Advertising Regulations
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Dot Com Disclosures
The Webs most interesting "404" error messages
Last page of the Internet
(just for fun)
This Page Intentionally Left Blank
Project
(just for fun)
SEO Tutorial
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SEO Tools
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Why do I get different results with Startpage.com than Google?
How to remove a page from Google
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HTTP Authentication
Most Popular Passwords
Why do people create computer viruses?
How to disable Firefox Add-on compatibility and security checking
Privacy risk of using these websites
Horizontal and Vertical CSS Menu Tutorial
How to embed sound in a webpage
JavaScript Powered Background Audio Selector
Starting/Stoping Jukebox via Javascript
Flash XSPF Web Music Player
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Player Interaction Issues
Embedded Example - Streaming Peace
Free
Online Tools
Webpage Language Translator
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Spelling and Grammar checker
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Image creation (paint) tool
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Visio document
(and various other formats) to PDF conversion service
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PostScript [*.ps]
to PDF conversion service
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PDF Reference and Adobe Extensions to the PDF Specification
Ebook [*.epub]
(and various other formats) conversion service
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MS Office [*.docx]
document conversion service
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ASCII Control Characters used in Microsoft Word
various format
(including OpenOffice documents) conversion service
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various media format
conversion service
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