Open University Course T171: You, Your Computer and the Net

The following are some of the sites we reviewed on the T171 course...
Module 1
http://sustainability.open.ac.uk/gary/netiquette.html	netiquette and the social conventions of computer conferencing
http://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Management/art0.html	groups that work
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/R3283/#HIV	Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail
http://www.fsf.org/fsf/	free software foundation
http://www.free-soft.org/	open source
http://download.cnet.com/	download software
http://www.stack.nl/htmlhelp/links/tutorials.htm	web design tutorials
http://werbach.com/barebones/	bare bones HTML guide
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/	web style guide
http://www.useit.com/	Jakob Nielsen's Useable Information Technology
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html	top ten web page design mistakes
Module 2
http://www.intel.com/
http://www.autoidcenter.org/main.asp	auto id lab at MIT - linking the physical world to the internet
http://www.thetech.org/revolutionaries/moore/	interview with Gordon Moore
http://www.sciam.com/1296issue/0995paterson.html	microprocessors in 2020
http://www.inspiration.com/	concept map software
http://www.thebrain.com/	concept map software
http://www.woz.org/	Steve Wozniak Apple founder home page
http://moliere.byu.edu/digital/heroesa5.html	FEAR & LOATHING IN CYBERSPACE
http://www.thetech.org/revolutionaries/wozniak/	Interview with Steve Woz, the technical genius behind Apple
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Jobs.html	Bio of Apple founder Steve Jobs
http://www.apple.com/	apple website
http://www.freegraphics.com/	free graphics
http://www.freecenter.com/graphics.html	more free web graphics
Module 3
http://www.abcgiant.com/	web backgrounds
http://www.parc.xerox.com/parc-go.html	Xerox PARC -
http://www.thetech.org/revolutionaries/metcalfe/	interview with Bob Metcalfe
http://www.ibm.com/	IBM home page
http://www.lotus.com/	lotus home page
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/02/002fallows.htm	Inside the leviathan - study of Microsoft
http://www.compaq.com/	Compaq home page
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2436453,00.html	reverse engineering
http://www.rand.org/
http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/baran.list.html	Paul Baran
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm	'as we may think' vannevar bush
http://www.xanadu.net/	xanadu project
http://www.aus.xanadu.com/xanadu
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/	hypertext research
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/ACHIEVEMENTS/web.html	CERN - development of the WWW
http://www.stars.com/Software/Browsers/	browsr history
http://www.w3.org/	world wide wed consortium
http://www.mit.edu/people/mkgray/net/web-growth-summary.html	Matthew Grays Internet Statistics site
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/stats/NSF/BothP.GIF	NSF traffic data
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/stats/NSF/merit.html	raw traffic data on NSF backbone
http://www.ciec.org/SC_appeal/decision.shtml	Censorship judgment
http://www.wps.com/FidoNet/source/Fido-FidoNet/fhist.html	Fido net history
Fidonet
http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/fsf/fsf.html	free software foundation
http://www.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/08/cov_31feature.html	Richard Stallman & copyleft
http://www.att.com/history/	AT&T - creators of Unix
http://leb.net/hzo/ioscount/ix_unix_net_pic.html	development of Unix
http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7East/minix.html	Minix - forerunner of Linux
http://www.linux.org/	Linux home page
http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/	Homesteading the Noosphere the norms and customs of the Open
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/opencode/h2o/	THE POWER OF OPENNESS
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/opencode/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html	Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/brian.html	Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
http://www.opensource.org/halloween/	leaked MS document on threat of Linux
http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/openbench1.html	mindcraft benchmark project Windows NT Server 4.0 and Linux
http://www.gnome.org/	gnome desktop project

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