Resources and Web Links

Here are links to various things on the Internet and World Wide Web which are interesting for some reason, but which are only tangentially related to character-cell video terminals.

• "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush (article from July 1945 Atlantic Monthly) :::.
• The "Textfiles" BBS Timeline (bulletin-board systems were a precursor to modern Internet applications) :::.
• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 Committee--standards for languages and resources for the description and processing of compound and hypermedia documents
• SGML/XML Web Page (Robin Cover, oasis-open.org)
  
  
• Architecture of the Worldwide Web (w3.org)
• W3 Schools (full web-building tutorials)
• Early History of HTML (Raggett)
• HTML Code Tutorial
• HTML Goodies: Primer
• 10-Minute Guide to HTML (Raggett)
• Character Entities in HTML 4 (w3.org)
  
  
• HTML and XHTML Advice from Dynamic Site Solutions
• Web-Page Best Practices (Apple) ::::
• Introduction to CSS for HTML (CAIDA)
• Web HTTP Resources (CERN/IETF)
• NVU Web-Authoring System: Windows, Macintosh, Linux. ::.
  
  
• Internet-Related Technologies (FAQs from irt.org) ::.
• Web Style Guide, 2nd edition
• HTML Validation Service (W3C)
• HTMLvalidator.com (download evaluation copy)
• 2003 WWW FAQs (Boutell.com)
• ECMAscript-Lang.org (the new Javascript)
• Quirksmode.org (PPK's Javascript and website-programming resources)
  
  
• Mozilla (with Firefox Web Browser)
• Opera web browser
• w3m text-mode web browser
• Lynx text-mode web browser
• iCab web browser (for Mac OS X)
• Text-Rendering Technology and Changes in Mac OS X/Panther
• Netcraft (What webserver software is a site running?)
• Rules for HTML Corporate EDGAR Filing (US SEC)
• Tidy (program to clean up HTML source documents)
• Judicious use of IMG/ALT tags in HTML (Text-friendly Web pages)
• CAPTCHA challenge-response test for making sure the reader is human
• Intelligent Web Display (Utopia)
• BBC Betsie (automatic text-only alternate website generation)
  
  
• AskTog: Practical Real-World Design of User Interfaces
• Web Page Design for Designers (wpdfd.com)
• Joomla (compassdesigns.net)
• Heal Your Church Web Site (righteous web design)
• The Design of Graphic User Interfaces (sju.edu)
• Ragged Designs (ragbag)
• The HTML Book List (wwwiz--forms based)
• Web Standards (www.w3.org)
• World Wide Web Journal:
  The Open Systems Perspective on Advanced Web Technology (w3j.com)
  
  
• Notes from the IETF Meeting, April 1997 (HTML via MIME? and other developments.)
  
  
• XML Resources Page, with Tutorial (IEEE Computer Society )
• XML Lecture Notes (Harvard: David Heitmeyer) ::::
• InfoML: Everyday Information, Made Useful (Gregg Williams)
• CoSy and WebCoSy: conferencing system (like original BIX)
• Grids Builder Tool for CSS (Yahoo)
• expat XML Parser Toolkit (Clark)
  
  
• The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint by distinguished graphical designer Edward Tufte.
• Would the Gettysburg Address have been better in PowerPoint?
• But the Bad-Hotel Presentation was fairly pursuasive....
• SEC warning about PowerPoint EDGAR submissions.
• Microsoft PowerPoint's "Centimeters" are not Actual Centimeters.
• Slidy: the XHTML Presentation Alternative (use a browser instead of PowerPoint).
• Robert Gaskins, inventor of PowerPoint
  
  
• Clarity in Technical Reporting: NASA's 1964 advice for technical presentations (spaf: PDF).
• Wes Peterson's advice on English writing for non-native speakers.
  
  
• Cross-Browser Compatibility (blog by "Kravvitz" on webpage HTML/CSS coding and related issues)
• HTML Code Tutorial
• HTML Help (reference guide to HTML 3.2)
• Make Web Pages "Best Viewed with Any Browser".
• useit.com: the Web-Usability Website (Jakob Nielsen)
• evolt.org Browser Software Archive
• PHP Documentation
  
• Irish PHP White Paper (PHP why and how...)
  
• Web Tips (Daniel Tobias)
  
  
• Vincent Flanders shows you Web Pages that Suck.
• How Big is the Web, Really? (Giles)
• Fixed (Web-Page) Layouts Doomed to Fail
  
• The Human Languages Page (Tyler Chambers)
  
• Multilingual Translation Memory of the Acquis Communautaire (DGT-TM: EC-JRC) :::.
  
• Multi-Lingual Macintosh (thgewecke)
  
• The Common Gateway Interface (CGI for HTTP)
• CGI Mini-HowTo (Caolan) :::
  
  
• LaTeX: A document prepration system
  (Donald E. Knuth urges TeX users to update their fonts.)
• TeX Users Group
• LaTeX utilities: include PostScript/EPS, multi-column equations
• TTH: TeX-to-HTML (Hutchinson)
• LaTeX2HTML
• TechExplorer TeX and LaTeX Plugin for Netscape Navigator (IBM)
  (However, expect a rude reception if you look at this page using Lynx!)
• Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
• dvips (TeX DVI to PostScript)
• PostScript Page Description Language FAQ (landfield.com)
• A First Guide to PostScript (Weingartner)
• GhostScript, Ghostview, and GSview Page (GNU PostScript tools)
• "Display PostScript" Technical Information (PDF files)
• PostScript-to-ASCII-Text Conversion (uni-heidelberg.de: ps2txt)
  
  
• Adobe's PDF-to-HTML Conversion Form
• Adobe Vision-Impaired PDF Document Access
• Convert PDF to Word (and related services)
• Planet PDF
• PDFzone.com (Resources for Acrobat and PDF) ::.
• Apago (vendor of PDFshrink)
• PDF Factory (FinePrint Software)
• BCL Computers (PDF to MS Word format conversion)
• GoHTM.com (PDF to HTML/image conversion)
• nitroPDF (modify PDF files, etc.)
  
  
• Investintech offers Able2Extract, for conversion of PDF documents to Microsoft's popular-yet-proprietary file formats.
• FoxItSoftware offers several PDF tools, including an editor.
• PDFlib (Merz: commercial product for generating PDF, has API)
• EXP Systems (software accessory to create PDF output)
• PDF995 (convert, edit PDF files) ::.
• PDFcreator (sourceforge)
• Xpdf (PDF viewer for X/Netscape)
• PDF tools (Sanface offers an Internet service so you can create your own PDF file from a web form.)
  
  
• Adobe has a PDF reader.
  
  
• Jgraph: a filter for plotting graphs in PostScript
• PGplot graphics library
• PSPLOT graphics package (for Fortran)
• HP-GL/2 Plot viewer/converter (free to high-energy physicists)
• Grace WYSIWYG plotting software (X, Motif)
• mswc MultiServer Web Charts (Oetiker)
• APA Style Converter for Writing (U. Richmond)
  
  
• Email Effects (tool to create ASCII art)
• Christopher Johnson's ASCII Art Collection (frameless menu)
• Walking Man as ASCII Art Animation (dickkoolish: gif)
• Introduction to Barcode (taltech.com)
• Barcode Server Online (milk.com)
• US Postal Service Barcodes (PDF: www.usps.gov)
• Front end to GNU Barcode tool (kbarcode.net)
• Pure Postscript Barcode generator
• j2 Messenger Fax send/receive (Windows or Macinsoth)
  
  
• Introduction to MIME Mail
• How to turn off HTML or RTF Encoding in Email Programs
• More advice on how to turn off HTML Encoding in Email Programs
• mudecode MIME/uudecode tool (acme.com)
• UUDeview: uuencode/MIME base64/binhex/xxencode (Pilhofer)
  
  
• Scientific Data Format Information FAQ
• Scientist's Electronic Notebook Project (ORNL: geist)
• International Standard Date and Time Notation (Kuhn, 2006)
• "Clocks and Time" site (Gordon T. Uber) :::
• International System of Units (SI: the metric system) :::
• Reed-Solomon Error-Correcting Codes (SIAM News)
• Send Morse Code over the Internet (eham.net) :::.
• Learning Morse Code (ARRL) :::::
• Phonetic Alphabet and Procedural Codes (ARRL) ::::.
• International Code of Nautical Signal Flags (2009 link: USPS) ::::.
• North American Vexillological Association (flags)
• Flagline (nautical ensigns, etc.)
• American Sign Language (Deaf Resource Library) :::
• Navaho Language as Secret Code ("Windtalkers")
• Braille, Computer Encoding, and Accessibility (W3C)
• The 80-Column "Hollerith" Punched Card (uiowa/jones)
  ...and Wired news about people who still use punched cards
  ...and Cardamation, which in 2006 is still selling punched-card equipment.
• Another type of card: the vCard Directory Entry (Generate your own "vcf" here.)
• vCard formats (imc.org)
  
  
• Wotsit.Org (collection of information on file formats)
• Endun.Gen File-Extension Database (English version)
• The Dead Media Project (Sterling/Kadrey) has tallied some fresh kills.
• Preservation 101 (lessons from Northeast Document Conservation Center)
• MessageCleaner (tool for messy messages)
• DataGlyphs (Xerox PARC's easily hidden binary encoding)
• Readers for Palm OS "Doc" Texts (Tillotson)
• Palm OS Etext Formats (Jeff Kirvin)

• I18N (Internationalization), L10N (Localization), Standards, and Amusements (i18nguy.com)
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets
  No Excuses! (Joel Spolsky)
• I18N Gal Blog ::::
• ISO 8859-1 National Character Set FAQ (2004 link: cs.uu.nl)
• Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers, and Other Applications (Alan Wood)
• Every Unicode Character (big file supplied by Jef Poskanzer)
• Unicode Support for Macintosh
• Unicode Printing from gdb
• Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/Me systems
• Unicode Support in Solaris Locales
• Unicode Cross-Platform wchar_t Tool
• Neutral Spanish (i18nguy.com)
• Greek Unicode Issues (Nick Nicholas)
• Unicode Support in MySQL 4.1
  
  
• IANA Official Character Sets and Code-Point Assignments
• HTML, ISO-8859-1, and other Character Set Issues (flavell)
• HTML Special Character Entities (Rorvik/evergreen)
• HTML 4.0/SGML Character Entities (w3.org)
• List of Character Sets (IANA)
• Text Creation Partnership SGML/XML Glyph Encoding/Interpretation ()
• Text Creation Partnership Character Entity List (experimental) :::::
• Multi-Lingual Macintosh (thgewecke)
  
• Unicode.Org (the Euro Report)
  
  
• FYTI: Advice on which fonts to use in various contexts (2005 link)
• Discussion of font history
• FontForge (helpful free software)
• Bitstream Vera Fonts (from Gnome.org: royalty-free Latin 1 set)
• Adobe Type Library (font/typeface collections and tools)
• Fonts in Cyberspace resource page (Summer Institute of Lingustics)
• Everson Typography (Everson-Mono font, Celtic fonts, Unicode)
• Identifont's Free Fonts
• Nerfect's Free Fonts
• StormType Lido STF Font (Times alternative for 0 €)
• FontHaus (online vendor offering Coquette)
• Fonts.Com (Agfa-Monotype Fonts for Windows and Macintosh--Postscript or TrueType--with the occasional free sample)
• Crazy Diamond Design (historical fonts and typefaces)
• Psy/Ops (fonts)
• Core (fonts including Swedish)
• Chank Font of the Month
• Vintage Type (really strange fonts, and Telegram fonts)
• Fonts'N'Things
• Peter Hanley's Font Experiments (&cond)
• Harold's Fonts
• Dinctype/Girls Who Wear Glasses (retro clips and fonts)
• High Fonts (free)
• Caffeen (fonts)
• FontFinder.ws
• Astigmatic One Eye (fonts)
• vLetter Cursive Handwriting Fonts
• Veer Fonts
  
  
• Using HTML <IMG ...> Tag ALT Attributes
• The Trouble with EM 'n EN (careful punctuation in an XHTML world))
• Use HTML character entities to obscure an email address. (suggested by West Bay Web Internet Publishing)
• Greek Alphabet (Rorvik) :::
• SP Fonts: Truetype Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic (Adair: both Windows and Macintosh) :::
• History of Japanese Kanji Characters (Bio-Crawler)
  
• Gray Graphics (kana fonts)
• VTrain Vocabulary Resources offers fonts for many languages.

• Mac OS X Character Encoding for Various Human Languages (Apple)
• Hyperarchive of Macintosh Font Tools

• <FONT FACE> Considered Harmful (2004 link)
• <FONT FACE> Promoted by Microsoft
• The Scourge of Arial (font lament by Mark Simonson)
• Arial vs. Helvetica (swiss-miss.com) ::::.

• The lorem ipsum dummy layout text corpus.

• Eric Raymond advises how to get best help from a Techie person.
  ("Sounds like you've got a stuck zentry. You'll need to clear it.")
• Hints for preventing corrupted downloads of software packages

• Microsoft tools to read data formats of Office, etc. (HTTP access)
• Microsoft PowerPoint viewer (FTP)
  
  
• Bordeaux ("Wine" technology for BSD, Linux, Solaris, MacOSX)
• AbiWord Downloads (abisource.com)
• Microsoft Publisher viewing alternatives/conversion (Kvalheim)
  
  
• icExcel (spreadsheet viewer for Mac OS X: version for Windows under development in 2003)
• icWord (document viewer for Mac OS X)
• DataViz File Conversion Products (Windows)
• DataViz MacLinkPlus File Conversion (Mac OS X)

Software products by Microsoft, by default, store data in proprietary formats. The resulting files are intended to be read only by other Microsoft products. When Microsoft makes incompatible changes in its storage formats, this generally forces each organization using the software to upgrade every PC to a new version. However, read-only access to the files can be managed using the above "viewer" programs.

• wvWare (formerly called MSWordView: MS Word viewer/converter) :::
• wvWare Decrypt (caolan) :::
• McCusker's commentary about Microsoft's file-format policies
• DOCtor (StoneDesign: converts MS Word documents to PostScript)
• AntiWord: converts Microsoft Word documents to other formats
• catdoc: reads MS Word documents and outputs ASCII text (vitus)
• wvWare: reads Microsoft Office 2000/97/95/6 Word documents in Unix (link to old site)
• Office Converter from Powerlan-USA converts Microsoft Office documents and Access databases while verifying content integrity.
• Quick View Plus: Reads numerous file formats (commercial)
• Sun PCviewer reads Microsoft proprietary data formats (stale link)
• Sun's StarOffice package contains import and export filters for MS PowerPoint 97/2000.
• SunForum (can interoperate with Microsoft NetMeeting)
• Microsoft's UID Removal Tool for Office
  (you can avoid having your identity embedded in all your documents)

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New Money: Dealing with the Euro

In accordance with the Maastricht Treaty, the "Euro" currency came into use on 1 January A.D. 1999.

• The Official Euro Page (europa.eu.int)
• Euro FAQ (Patrick O'Beirne)
• Euro Bookmarks (itworks.be)
• Practical Aspects: Euro and IT (cec.be)
• IT Euro Encoding-Implementation Status (dragoman.org)
• Recommendation on where to put the Euro sign on computer keyboards and similar information-processing equipment (PDF)
  
  
• Agfa-Monotype Eurofont (2005: free)
• The Euro Currency Symbol (Microsoft)
• Updated Microsoft Fonts with Euro Symbol (Microsoft)
• Microsoft Euro Support page

• Beginner's guide to the major image formats used on the World Wide Web (Beardsmore)
• Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats or perhaps here (O'Reilly & Assoc.)
• Image File Formats List (Center for Innovative Computer Applications)
• "pbmplus" image-conversion utilities (Jef Poskanzer) -- update to the "netpbm" utilities (Oldenburg FTP mirror)
• Introduction to Computer Color
• Poynton's Color Technology Page: Gamma FAQ, Colour FAQ (Darmstadt FTP mirror)
• Sub-Pixel Font Rendering ("ClearType" background)
• Dr. Joseph M. Newcomer's expert analysis of fonts in the Bush/Killian/Texas Air National Guard memos.
• Graphic File Formats (Uni-Hannover, updated)
• Usenet FAQs on Graphics (Ohio State)
• JPEG FAQs (Ohio State)
• PNG: Portable Network Graphics Encoding (libpng.org)
• Teapot FAQ
• Netlib's "graphics" software index (ORNL/UTK)
  
  
• Colour Equations FAQ: RBG to CMY transform and more (Ford/Roberts)
• Tektronix HLS Color Chart (local GIF image)
• 1983 CIE Chromaticity Diagram
• GNUplot (interactive plotting program... or try here)
• sm interactive plotting program (NASA/Fermilab--old link?)
• plotutils GNU plotting package (New home page: Maier)
• plotutils GNU pkg. with libplot DLL (FTP:gnu.org)
• What is the TIFF graphics-file format?
• GIF/LZW Patent Licensing by Unisys
• Burn all GIFs! (James S. Huggins protests Unisys policies)
• GIF Patent 4,558,302 (patft.uspto.gov)
• The Bandwidth Conservation Society (optimized GIFs: 2005 link)
  
  
• Kohonen Neural-Network Image-Color Quantization
• NIST Visual Image-Processing Group (OCR, fingerprint)
• Zip File Format and Compression Notes (pkzip.com)
• Cross-Platform Encoding and Compression Formats Page (1999 link)
• Info-Zip Compressor/Archiver Project (cdrom.com)
• 7zip (a free archiver program for Windows, sadly incompatible with Info-Zip formats)
• Dr. Ross's Compression Crypt (saga of a tormented life)

• LinuxPrinting.org Printer Database ::.
• The Internet Printing Protocol (Printer Working Group, IETF/IPP)
• All-Laser.Com (tech support for laser printers)
• LPRng (lpr "new generation" printing package--Powell, Astart)
• The LPRng "How-To" (ggeens, rug.ac.be)
• LPRng Mailing-List Archive (lrz-muenchen)
• How LPRng is used at Lockheed-Martin Astronautics/Denver (komar)
• LPRng Printing Tools at Berkeley (cxh)
• lp_server: lets a Unix host emulate an HP JetDirect card ::.
• p910nd: runs from inetd, passes jobs to parallel printer
• How to configure a non-Postscript printer under Solaris
• Set up an HP printer under Solaris (hp.com)
• OLE for Retail Point-of-Sale Printing (NCR) -- (alternate site)
• Skully's Digital Darkroom@Singapore (printing photos)
• Inkjet Printer Troubleshooting Guide (Netfactory)
• The Printer Works (with hardcopy-device repair information)
• PCL 5 HP Printer Codes (NEC Tech)
• Russ Wright's PrnPrint (prints "print to file files) and MultiPass Canon utilities ::.
• Guide to International Paper Sizes (EDS Inc. 1999-10-11)
• DEC contributed "printcap" entries
• MacOS X printing to Stylewriter 2400 from G3 ::.
• Modern Reprographics (large-format documents)
• Logo Tracing (raster to vector)
• IEEE-1284 Bidirectional Parallel Printer Port
• iProof Systems/Birmy Graphics (Postscript L3 inkjet drivers, RIPs)
• Typewriters: the original hard copy!  :::::
• Collection of IBM Selectic Typewriters (J. Forbes)
• DocGen: Automatic Documentation Generation (DoD-STD-2167)
• Issues of computing using the Japanese language are mentioned in the
  "soc.culture.japan FAQ, part 3". (shimpei.org)
• Enabling Technologies Braille Printers/Embossers

• Does your web browser give out your email address?
• What can your browser do? (JavaScript)
• QuickTime (Apple)
• RealPlayer (real.com)
• Safe Internet Programming (Princeton: Web security)
• Allegation that MS Internet Explorer Compromises NT Security
• Information on Networks, Communication, and Security (MSIC)
• Transport Yourself to JavaLand (from Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
• Java FAQ (afu.com)
• Character-Cell-Terminal Implementation of Java AWT (Rob Pitman)
• Java Programming FAQ (pvdl--1999)
• Acme Java Mines (poskanzer)
• Digital Expresso (weekly summaries of Java discussions)
• IBM's Java Projects
• Official Internet Standard for Brewing Coffee
• Introduction to JavaScript (Peter-Paul Koch) ::.
• Doctor Bob's Internet Tourbus (and accessing the Internet using only Email)
• Cascading Style Sheets (Bandwidth Conservation Society)
  
  
• FAQs on sendmail and majordomo (gwu)
• Sendmail.org
• Majordomo FAQ (ohio-state/Barr)
• Majordomo List Owner's Guide (UChicago)
• Qmail Mail Transfer Agent (can replace sendmail)
• Email Web Resources (CMU/Andrew II)
• OpenLDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
• Nexor Email/Messaging Products
  
  
  
• Fentun (extraction tool for WINMAIL.DAT attachments, for Windows and Linux)
  
  
• 2004 Messaging and Spam-Technology Tour (Network World)
  
• RFC-822--Standard for the Format of Internet Email Messages (1982)
• BABEL (Glossary of Computer-Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms: Geocities site)
• Bluetooth Wireless Networking (PDAs, etc.)
• The Ethernet Page (Charles Spurgeon on LAN technology)
• SQE ("Heartbeat") Signal in Ethernet/IEEE-802.3 (UC)
• Introduction to TCP/IP (Yale)
• Protocol Analysis Tutorials (NetworkUptime.com)
• Uri's TCP/IP Resource List (at technion.ac.il ... or use mirror site at Best.com)
• Mobile IP Version 4 (mipv4 via cisco)
• Domain Name Server (DNS) Resources Directory
• DNS Information and Resources (U. Western Ontario)
• Ask Mr. DNS (Acme Byte & Wire)
• SNMP FAQs (Simple Network Management Protocol)
• ASN.1 Resources (Abstract Syntax Notation 1)
• archives of Usenet comp.dcom.net-management
  
• Internet RFCs (experimental HTML from CMU)
• PIER--Procedures for Internet and Enterprise Renumbering
• Which part of the Internet will collapse first? (Maybe not the part you imagine!)
• SWIX X.500 directory client for Windows (umu.se)
• Web500 X.500 World Directory (tu-chemnitz.de)
• High Bandwidth Web Page (zaret)
• Wireless LAN/WAN Product Directory (McLarnon, VE3JF)
• PCIA Protocol Specifications (pager/beeper protocols)
  
  
• An Historical Review of X.25 (AT&T Interspan Services)
• EMACS Implementations (finseth.com)
• Jamie Zawinski's Nerd Documents (flames about X, Emacs vs. Xemacs, email, character sets, HTML, Linux)
• Guide to Computer Vendors
• Samba Unix server for MS-Windows File Service
• netatalk (AppleTalk Protocol Suite for Unix--Michigan)
• Boyer-Moore Fast String-Searching Algorithm
• AutoCAD Printer Drivers (AutoDesk--Oct 1998)
• American Electronics Association
• Used Computer Equipment Dealers
• Equilink (Computer Equipment Dealers)
• Internet Computer Xchange
  
  
• Help Rescue a Classic Computer!
• Computer History Association of California
• Osney Laboratory Computer Museum
• Old-Computers.com (Joe Cassara)
• The House of RetroComputing (kpneal)
• Histoire de l'Informatique (Rossi)
• Events in the History of Microcomputers (kpolsson)
• Lexikon Computer History (Who was first?)
• Herb Johnson's Collection of S-100 Computers
  
  
• TIA/EIA-568A Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard
• Modem FAQ by John Navas (2003 link)
• Curt Faulconer's Page on High-Speed Modems
• Modem/Bandwidth Speed Guide (Silk Road)
• IEEE-488/HP-IB/GPIB Interface Tutorial
• IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic (Grinnell College)
• Proposed New Telephone Service for Internet Users (Satchell)
• Cellular Digital Packet Data
• Totally Wireless (voice and data products)
• Universal Serial Bus Home Page (usb.org)
• Collection of Frequently Asked Questions (from Usenet--Ohio State)
• TheRef: PC Hardware (Disk) Specs at Your Fingertips (Falbo)
• Frank Pikelner's Disk-Storage Information (Pikelner)
• Schwarz's Hardware Reference Page (tu-berlin: A.D. 2000 link)
  
• CD-Recordable FAQ (McFadden--"writable CD-ROM")
• Unix csh/tcsh information (primate.wisc.edu)
• Lions' Commentary on Unix, 6th d. (peer-to-peer.com)
• Shaffstall Corporation (tape & disk data-conversion services)
• Migration Specialties, Inc (media conversion services: RX01, TK50, etc.)
  
• Trailing Edge Technologies (tape & disk data conversion)

• Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT: U. Penn.)
• The Copyright Website (P.J. Benedict O'Mahoney)
• Guide to Proper Trademark Use (G.H. Guillot)
• Switchboard (Residential and Business Directory)
• A Walk Through Time
• NIH Time Zone Package (Olson)
• Software Engineering Archives (from Usenet)
• What Are Function Points? (Jones--Software Productivity Research)
• Terabyte's Home Page
• The Jargon File (fwi.com mirror)
• Covey Crump: (naval jargon)
• Roman Numeral Converter (Lee Seitz)
• The Internet Society
• Internet RFC Standards (STD) Index (asg.web.cmu.edu)
• ATM/Cell-Relay Abbreviations (Indiana)
• Kagi (online payment system for shareware)
• Porthcurno Telegraph Museum (UK)
  
  
• Online Virus Hoax Check (Network Associates/McAfee)
• Vortex Technology (archives of Privacy Forum, Computer History)
• Time Motion Tools (electronic toolkits)
  
  
• MPEG-2 Digital Video Information (DCII, DVB: coolstf.com)
• EIA 1152 Video Resolution Test Pattern (lbl)
• Softboard Movie .sbd to Flash Movie .swf Conversion Software (C++ for Win32 from MITRE Corporation)
• Neil Rieck's "cool computer" links (for technologists)
• Hemmerling's Real-Time Computing Page
  
  
• The Oldest Technical Manual in the English Language
• Where Do Nerds Come From?
• Ladle Rat Rotten Hut (Who's Afraid of the Wicket Woof?)
• All Your Base Are Belong to Us! (pops up ads)
• The Sinister X Conspiracy
• Giant Octo

• docpad editor (free replacement for Windows Notepad)
  
  
• VNC: Virtual Network Computing lightweight remote GUI server/client
• Tight VNC (Constantin Kaplinsky's enhancements)
• omniORB Free CORBA 2.1 Object Request Broker (for C++ and Python; omniorb.sourceforge.net)
• How to use Email from MS-DOS with PPP on an old Intel-based PC (komaromi)
• Ataman free software for Windows NT (including "xvi" and "mg")
• The SmallTalk Express free object-oriented environment is no longer available. You can read what happened to its vendor.
• Fujitsu COBOL v3 Free Compiler for Students (Windows 98)
• GNAT Ada compiler (under GPL; Java enhancement in progress)
• Jane's Defense Weekly Screen Saver
• Apollo 11 Screen Saver (Keith Parkansky)

The label graphic at the top produced via Jef Poskanzer's Acme Label Maker service.