Computing and Networking in the fringes

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Computing

Uncommon Computing

• Eric's Slide Rule Site
• The Old Calculator Web Museum

~ 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

~ Free online Cray SuperComputer access^$

• Punched Cards
• Historical BBS List
• The Poqet PC
• HTML Games (WebTV/MSNTV compatible games)
• WebTV Power-Off Codes
• Just say NO to Microsoft

~ 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^$

• Gaby's Homepage for CP/M
• Best of DOS^$
• Chinese mods for DOS
• The Father of DOS

~ "VisiCalc"

~ "Visi On", the first PC GUI

• Dead Drops
• Hacking Skill Tests^$
• 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

~ Disable Windows 10 Tracking

• Introduction to Modern PC Memory
• Download more RAM! (just for fun)

~ Memory Timings Explained

• The "Northwood" Intel Pentium 4 processor
• Technical x86 processor information
• Silent PC review

~ Effective Passive Hard Drive Cooling

• USB Flash Drives

~ DOS USB/FireWire support

• Weird USB drives (just for fun)
• "autorun.inf" Tutorial
• About the MP3 format

~ Audio Compression

• Sound Card Chips
• The ID3v1 MP3 Tag

~ The ID3v2 MP3 Tag

• The Reference Index

~ Extended ASCII Codes

• Converting DOS Batch Files to Shell Scripts

~ 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

~ Desert Island Test, Dissident Test, and Tentacles of Evil Test

• Replacement Docs
• Thousands of Free Fonts

~ More Free Fonts

• Free Screensavers
• Free Desktop Backgrounds

~ 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

~ Lame plugin

• CCleaner Free
• CDex
• Cute Video Cutter Free Version
• Defender Control
• DOSBox-X
• Emsisoft Emergency Kit
• FileZilla Client
• Free PDF Metadata Editor
• - Ghostscript
• ImgBurn
• IrfanView [including plugins]
• Jarte

~ MS Office Compatibility Pack plugin

• - Java
• Kodi
• LibreOffice
• LosslessCut
• Mp3tag
• MPC-BE
• O&O ShutUp10++
• OBS Studio
• Pdf995 [entire suite]
• - PDFCreator FREE
• SpywareBlaster
• Thunderbird
• TinyWall
• Vivaldi

~ Disable HTML5 Autoplay extension

~ uBlock Origin extension

• - WinPcap
• WonderFox DVD Video Converter
• WordWeb Free

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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^$
• Do-it with Telnet

~ 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

~ Flame Warriors (just for fun)

• Send an Anonymous Email^$
• World Anonymous FTP sites
• historical WAIS Announcement video
• Gopher Protocol^$

• The Internet Publishing Handbook
• History of the Internet for Historians

~ Internet Census 2012

• NsLookup^$
• Line Quality Test^$

~ Connection Speed Test^$

~ Modem Speed Test

• DNS Propagation Check^$
• OpenNIC Public Servers^$

Testing: A website with an OpenNIC address^$

• Root Zone Database
• Find the geographic location of an IP address^$
• Free Wi-Fi Hotspots
• How to connect to the MBone
• Coral Content Distribution Network [.nyud.net]
• Anonymous Internet Surfing HOWTO
• Discover your IP address^$

~ Test your IPv6 connectivity^$

~ Test your Connection Speed^$

The World Wide Web

• IP Address and More^$
• NSA surveillance: A guide to staying secure
• A History of Search Engines
• Dead Link Checker^$
• SEO Service Glossary
• Lessons in Critically Evaluating Websites

~ How to Evaluate Web Resources

• Frequently Asked Website Questions
• Current Issues in Web Usability
• The Second Acid TEST^$
• TEST a website's performance^$
• HTML5 TEST^$

• Everything WebTV

~ WebTV specific HTML

• Browser Neutral Design Tips

~ Is Navigation useful?

• Technical website design considerations
• Viewable With Any Browser Campaign
• Website Trust Rating^$

~ Website Worth Calculator^$ (just for fun)

• Recreation of the very first Website
• Lynx Viewer^$

• 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

~ Standard Banner Ad Sizes

• Writing effective ALT text for images
• What is a "fav" Icon?

~ Generate "fav" Icons^$

• ISO Latin 1 overview

~ Serif vs. San Serif legibility comparison

• URL Encoding
• CSS FAQ

~ CSS rendering problems and workarounds

• HTML Codes Table
• Special Entity HTML Codes
• "robots.txt" Tutorial

~ "robots.txt" Checker^$

• A Dictionary of HTML META Tags
• View HTTP Request and Response Header^$

• The strange saga of Yahoo and WebRing
• Social Bookmarking Sites
• What is a podcast?

~ RSS

• Internet Pornography Statistics

~ Adult Web Hosting Providers

• Internet Acronyms Dictionary
• Internet Marketing and Advertising Regulations

~ 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

~ SEO Tools^$

• Why do I get different results with Startpage.com than Google?
• How to remove a page from Google^$
• 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

~ Player Interaction Issues

• Embedded Example - Streaming Peace

Free Online Tools

• Webpage Language Translator^$
• Spelling and Grammar checker^$
• Image creation (paint) tool^$

• Visio document (and various other formats) to PDF conversion service^$
• PostScript [*.ps] to PDF conversion service^$

~ PDF Reference and Adobe Extensions to the PDF Specification

• Ebook [*.epub] (and various other formats) conversion service^$
• MS Office [*.docx] document conversion service^$

~ ASCII Control Characters used in Microsoft Word

• various format (including OpenOffice documents) conversion service^$
• various media format conversion service^$

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