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Computing

Offbeat Internet:

• Join in a Distributed Computing project

~ SETI@home

• Teach AI about the world
• Play a game that helps label images
• Now that you have labled images, play a game that helps AI identify image content
• Help the visually impared by playing a game that captions images

• Play the original MUD, the oldest multi-user computer game in existance

~ Visit LambdaMOO, the oldest MOO in existance

• Worlds largest collection of Gopher resources

~ Gopher Newsgroup

• Why Misplaced Usenet Binaries Suck
• How NOT to get an E-mail virus

~ Flame Warriors (just for fun)

• Podcast Portal
• The Internet Publishing Handbook
• History of the Internet for Historians
• DNS and other lookup searches

~ Connection Speed Test

~ Modem Speed Test

• Generic Top-Level Domains

~ Country TLD

The World Wide Web:

• The Alexa Web Traffic Rankings

~ Free Search Engine Submissions

• Lessons in Critically Evaluating Websites
• Current Issues in Web Usability

~ Example of a very unusual graphical way to present Website Information

• ISO Latin 1 overview

~ Font readability comparison

• CSS FAQ

~ CSS rendering problems and workarounds

• Robots.txt Tutorial

~ A Dictionary of HTML META Tags

• Browser Statistics

~ 640 x 480 isn't dead just yet

• Social Bookmarking Sites
• Internet Marketing and Advertising Regulations

~ Dot Com Disclosures

• The Webs most interesting "404" error messages

~ This one makes you want to linger

Uncommon Computing:

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

~ Calculator Watches

• Re-discover Old Computers
• The Poqet PC

~ DOS Lives!

• Gaby's Homepage for CP/M
• Archive of BBS TextFiles
• WebTV Power-Off Codes
• Just say NO to Microsoft
• Custom OO Shapes

PC Basics:

• History of the GUI
• Introduction to Modern PC Memory

~ Memory Timings Explained

• The "Northwood" Intel Pentium 4 processor
• Silent PC review

~ Effective Passive Hard Drive Cooling

• Audio file formats

~ Results of the Public Listening Tests

• Older versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader
• The Reference Index

~ Extended ASCII Codes

• What exactly is Freeware?
• Open Source Definition
• Free Software Definition
• Debian Free Software Guidelines

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