The resources below are not only the references for the articles of the history index, but optional further readings in the area of computer and networking history. The access to primary and secondary source material provided below would allow you and your students  to build your own history of computing and the Internet that is most appropriate to the age levels of those you will teach. For an excellent summary of computers and computer history, go online to Hunter Library and use these terms to search the Encyclopedia Britannica. To find new web sites as they appear on these topics, search for history AND WWW OR computer OR Internet or use related terms. 

Shelves (Libraries)

• Charles C. Mann (August, 2002). Why Software Is So Bad. Technology Review: MIT's Magazine of Innovation. pp.33-38.
• Cooper, Alan (1995). About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design. Cooper Books.  [read free online chapter]
• Cooper, Alan (1999). The Inmates are running the Asylum: Why High-tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity, Cooper Books. [read free online chapter]
• Deutschman, Alan (May, 2005). Change or Die. Fast Company Magazine. 94(1). http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/94/open_change-or-die.html
• Delong, J. Bradford (April, 2003) Shifting Into Overdrive: What happens when mass storage leaves microchips in the dust. Wired, p.94.
• Devault, M. Vere (1965). Research and the Classroom Teacher. Teachers College Record, 67(3), 211-216.
• Friedman, Thomas L. (2005). The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Gorman, Christine (July 28, 2003). The New Science of Dyslexia. Time, 53-59.
• Johnson, David W.; Johnson, Roger T.; Buckman, Lee A.; Richards, P. Scott. (1985a). The Effect of Prolonged Implementation of Cooperative Learning on Social Support Within the Classroom. Journal of Psychology, Vol. 119 Issue 5, p405.
• Johnson, David W.; Johnson, Roger T.; Roy, Patricia; Zaidman, Brian. (1985b). Oral Interaction in Cooperative Learning Groups: Speaking, Listening, and the Nature of Statements Made by High-, Medium-, and Low-Achieving Students. Journal of Psychology, Vol. 119 Issue 4, p303.
• Johnson, David W. and Johnson, Frank P. (2003).  Joining together: group theory and group skills. 8^th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
• Kevles, Daniel J. (August 1, 2003). SciTech: The Forces are with Us. The Chronicle of Higher Education, B11-12.
• Klein, Richard (2002). Dawn of Human Culture. New York: Wiley & Sons.
• Kurzweil, Ray (July, 2003). "The End of Handicaps", eSchool News, p41-42.Malone, Michael S. (February, 2003). "Forget Moore's Law." Red Herring: The Business of Innovation. pp. 27-31.
• Maier, Pauline; Smith, Merritt Roe ; Keyssar, Alexander ; & Kevles, Daniel J. (2002). Inventing America: A History of the United States. New York: W.W. Norton.
• Malone, Michael S. (February, 2003). "Forget Moore's Law." Red Herring: The Business of Innovation. pp. 27-31.
• Mandelbrot, Benoit & Hudson, Richard L. (2004). The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-04355-0.
• Noack, David (February, 1997). The Origin of PCs. Internet World, (51-55). [Good source for additional web sites on digital history).
• Paulus, Paul B. and Nijstad, Bernard A. (2003). Group Creativity: Innovation through Collaboration. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Piaget, Jean & Inhelder, B. (1969). The Psychology of the Child. NY: Basic Books. 
• Postman, Neil (1992). Technopoly:  The Surrender of Culture to Technology, New York: Knopf. 
• Scanlong, Bill (September 10, 2001). Motorola Solves 30-Year Optical-Silicon Chip Puzzle, Interactive Week. (18).
• Sawyer, Keith (2007). Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration. New York: Basic Books.
• Shaywitz, Sally (2003). Overcoming Dyslexia. New York: Alred A. Knopf.
• Tang BL. ( Jul 7, 2006). Molecular genetic determinants of human brain size. Biochemical & Biophysical Research Communication, 345(3), 911-6.
• Toffler, Alvin (1970). Future Shock. New York: Bantum Books.
• Wells, Spencer (2003). The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey. Princeton University Press.
• Wells, Spencer (2003). The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey, DVD. National Geographic.

Web (Networked hard drives)

• ---- (August 6, 2003). Boston Public School District Using Unique3 Mobile/Wearable Computers. eSchoolNews Online. Available at http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/partners/showrelease.cfm?ReleaseID=362.
• Festa, Paul (November 28, 2001). The root of the problem: Bad software. CNET News.com. Available at http://news.com.com/2008-1082-276316.html?legacy=cnet.
• Frishberg, Manny (February, 20, 2002). Upside of Downsizing Analog Chips. Wired News, Available February 1, 2003 at http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50452-2,00.html.
• Hildebrand, Carol (May 15, 2002). What Elephant? CIO.com. Available August 3, 2003 at http://www.cio.com/archive/051502/elephant.html
• Kurzweil, Ray (March 7, 2001). The Law of Accelerating Returns. Available January 28, 2006 at http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1
• Kaner, Cem; Pels, David L.  (1998). Bad Software: What To Do When Software Fails. Available at http://www.badsoftware.com/badindex.htm.
• Leiner, Barry M., et al. (2003). A Brief History of the Internet.  http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
• Leslie, Mitchell (2002). Suddenly Smarter. Stanford Magazine. http://stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2002/julaug/features/anthro.html
• LeviNnson, Meredith (Oct. 15, 2001). Let's Stop Wasting 78 Billion a Year. CIO.com. http://www.cio.com/archive/101501/wasting_content.html
• Mayell, Hillary (2003). Documentary Redraws Humans' Family Tree. National Geographic. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1212_021213_journeyofman.html
• Myslewski, R. (2011). AMD promises 10 teraflop notebooks by 2020. The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/amd_trinity_and_elephants/
• Mortensen, Chris (2006). Change. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Online May 10, 2008 at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/change/
• Piquepaille, R. (May 7, 2003). Mass Storage Leaves Microchips in the Dust. Technology Trends. August 3, 2003, http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/05/07.html
• Takahashi, D. (2010,November 15). Nvidia makes big gains in supercomputing in deal with Amazon Web Service. VentureBeat. http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/15/nvidia-makes-big-gains-in-supercomputing-in-deal-with-amazon-web-services/
• Texas Instruments. (2003). Analog: A Fundamental Technology for the Internet Age. http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/press/backgrounder/analog.shtml
• Vinge, Verner (1993). The Technological Singularity. VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, March 30-31, 1993 Available January 28, 2006 at http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/Lit/vinge-sing.html
• Voss, David (Aug. 4, 2000). MRAM as Instant Access Memory. Wired. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/mram.html
• Walker, Leslie (Sunday, August 22, 2004). High-Speed Users Move Into Majority. Washington Post.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20674-2004Aug21.html

   

The Computer

• Triumph of the Nerds , a three hour show from PBS.
• Computer Science Museum , U.C. Davis. This site also provides a timeline of key events.
• Virtual Museum of Computing 
• History of Computing Information , U.S. Army's celebration of ENIAC's 50th anniversary.
• Obsolete Computer Museum .

The Internet

The Internet is a powerful unifying force integrating diverse populations of people, forms of communication, types of computers and infrastruFcture architectures (e.g., wires and wireless). The Internet achieved a mass of 50 million users in a few years while it took cable TV 10 years and television 13 years. 

• Hobbes's Internet Timeline 
• History of the Internet and WWW: View from Internet Valley 
• NetHistory 

Education

• A Brief History of Computers in the Classroom 
• A Brief History of Computers and Hypermedia in Education