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As far as original T171 content goes, there really isn't much.
I used to have a review of the 'Web Wizards' exhibition but I decided
to ditch it because it was ancient history and besides the pictures
on it were absolutely horrendous. They were taken with my old digital
camera which had no flash... Well, you can imagine! All that's left,
then, is Capitalist's Corner, which
is a brief intro to business studies. I wrote it as a capsule summary
of B200 for students who were daunted by the content of 'Blown to
Bits'. It's just my take on the subject and isn't intended to replace
reading of the book of course! You'll just have to endure that yourself
(But see 'Audible' section down near the bottom if you're desperate
for a short cut!)
My TMAs are here: TMA1 (Comparison
of Apple-related sites) : : : TMA2
(OS/2 vs MS-DOS) : : : TMA3
(Web Protocols) : : : TMA4 (E-commerce)
: : : ECA (General roundup, waffle,
etc)
As always, please remember that these are for revision and inspiration.
Learn from my mistakes but don't be tempted to plagiarise, whatever
you do!
Commercial Break: Power Without Responsibility
I was lucky enough, recently, to get a preview of three chapters
of the new edition of Power
Without Responsibility by James Curran. They were the sections
on the internet and new media. I thought it was really interesting
as a sort of counterpoint to the material in T171 in particular.
It approaches the subject from a whole different perspective, within
the context of general media studies. Cringely it ain't! I'd recommend
it to anyone who's interested in a different perspective on the
development of the web.
By the time you read this you can probably get it on Amazon, but
make sure you get the latest edition (Published July 2003)
 Generally
useful T171 Sites
Nigel Gibson's
Site - Try the Quizzes! : : : 'The
Future Just Happened' BBC : : : John
Naughton's Page : : : Jenweb
: : : Sarah's
Kinda Helpful Web Page : : : T171
Course Description : : : Books: Blown to Bits : : :
A Brief History of the Future : : :
Accidental Empires : : : Svenski
Netiquette, Smileys etc.
Figlet (ASCII
art) : : : Jurassic
Smiley : : : Emoticons
: : : Japanese Emoticons
: : : Chat
Room Shorthand : : : Flame
wars (pull up this page , then go on International Affairs Conf
and see how many of the types you can spot) : : : L33T
speak : : : Megatokyo "do
you speak L33T?" : : : ASCII
keyboard codes : : : Emily Postnews
T171 Issues
Internet
Sovereignty : : : The
Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond : : : The
Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling : : : Internet
and Society and Privacy
from H2G2 : : : Does
Capital Drive the Internet?
Cringely
I, Cringely : : : Triumph
of the Nerds
: : : Buy Triumph Of The Nerds
: : : The
Double Life of R.X.Cringely
T171 People
Interview
with Steve Wozniak : : : Woz.org
: : : Cerf's
Up : : : Robert
Noyce (Essay by Tom Wolfe) : : : Richard
Stallman : : : Jon
Von Neumann : : : Dan Bricklin
: : : Gary Kildall
: : : Norbert
Wiener (How's this for some bad, bad, baaaaad web design?) :
: : Vannevar
Bush - As
We May Think' : : : J.C.R
Licklider (needs acrobat reader) and Man-Computer
Symbiosis : : : Rolling Stone Interview with Steve
Jobs : : : Bill Gates (official
and unofficial , sick
and not-so-sick)
: : : John
Naughton on Bill Gates : : : Dennis
Ritchie : : : Lawrence Lessig
(Not a T171 person really but an interesting commentator on technology
and the law)
History
The Homebrew
Computer Club and another
one! : : : Old
Computers : : : History
of the Internet : : : Tools
for Thought : : : Computer
Science Museum : : : The
IBM Songbook!!! : : : PARC
: : : TX-0
article on Wikipedia : : : The
Analytical Engine : : : WWW
History : : : Fidonet
: : : ARPAnet
: : : Dr Dobbs - Computer
History : : : Internet Archive
(includes old versions of this page among several billion others!)
: : : Cyberia
PC : : : Complete text of Steven Levy's book 'Hackers
- Heroes of the Computer Revolution'. : : : Bill Gates' Open
Letter to Hobbyists
Hardware and Stuff
What's inside
that box? : : : All
about the BIOS : : : Intel
Museum : : : Break
Your Computer : : : Inside
the Apple Lisa : : : How
to cook an egg with a microprocessor (you have to scroll down
a bit!)
Nostalgia off the Beaten Track
Sinclair
: : : Commodore 64 : : : Atari
: : : Amiga : :
: Dragon
(This is what I had back when I was 12 and Adam and the Ants were
in the charts!) : : : Acorn
: : : Hey! Hey! 16K!
(Very funny - if you have a good memory!)
Operating Systems and Stuff Like That!
How
OSes Work : : : UNIX
History : : : GUI Gallery
: : : OS/2 : : : CP/M Emulator
: : : BeOS : : : MacOS
: : : Windows : :
: MS-DOS
: : : Linux : : :
Smalltalk : : : Squeak
(great fun to play with!) : : : FreeDOS
: : : Croquet
: : : PIck (no, I'd never heard of it either but this dude i work with is pretty keen on it)
Protocols
MSDN's
TCP/IP page (Very comprehensive and very technical!) : : : TCP/IP
abbreviation list : : : How
Internet Infrastructure Works
HTML and Site Building
Basic
Intro Tutorial : : : More Involved things from Webmonkey
: : : Bells 'n' Whistles
: : : Wiki Wiki Web
: : : Open Source Web Templates
: : : I'm dropping a lot of the HTML links from this page because
they're covered on other pages. If you're keen to learn more, why
not pop over to the TT280 page or 'How
I Did This'
E-Commerce
Journal of the Hyperlinked
Organisation : : : Making
Money on the Internet : : : Viral
Marketing : : : Small
Business Primer : : : Digital
Business Models : : : Marketing
Terms : : : Cluetrain Manifesto
(NB, See 'Audible' section below) : : : Blown
to Bits Website
T171 Multimedia
Key: S= Stream, D=Download, R=Real Format (otherwise, assume it
is compatible with windows media player etc). You will definitely
need broadband for this lot, OK?
Steve
Jobs Education Video (R, S)(I really hope this link works! It's
an excellent presentation. According to the site it should still
be OK but I can't reach it at the time of writing.) : : : Vint Cerf
on 'The
Internet Tidal Wave' (R, S) : : : Engelbart
Mouse Demo (R) : : : Tim Berners-Lee on Geek
Radio, and at the W3C
day opening (all S, R): : ; Welcome
to the IP Zone (silly cartoon about how IP works!) : : : Warriors
of the Net (Excellent 3D cartoon about TCP/IP) : : : Lecture
by Alan Kay of PARC speaking at the Educause Conference - This
is really worth a look if you have an hour to spare! (R, S) : :
: Streaming Documentary
about Alan Kay : : : Cringely Interview with
Ann Online (S, R) : : : Rick Rashid on the Future
of the Operating System - MP3 stream
or MP3 download
: : : Dot.Con
(Quicktime stream) : : :
e-Villages (BBC series) (S, R) : : : Vint Cerf on the Interplanetary
Internet : : : Techpodcasts
 Silly
Nonsense
Computers
in the Movies : : : Microsoft's
Real Mission Statement (The Horror! The Horror!) : : : Next
Version of Windows : : : User-Friendly
: : : Microsoft Linux : :
: Apple
i-Toilet : : : Check
your Nerdity Quotient : : : Guidelines
for extreme emergencies : : : Wibbly-Wobbly
World's T171 April Fool : : : Zefrank's Email punctuation : : :
Why switch to Linux? : : : Which
OS are you? : : : ...and
finally...
Net Culture
These sites aren't really related to T171 itself but they seem
to sum up the web's essence. Obviously any such list is bound to
be subjective but... Oh, well, you know what I mean... Suck
: : : Wired News : : : Electronic
Frontier Foundation and Peacefire
: : : Geek Culture : :
: "AYBABTU"
: : : Janis
Ian on file sharing : : : Paulina
Borsook has some good takes on silicon valley culture : : :
Hacker Jargon File
: : : B3TA : : : The
Register
Evaluating Internet Resources
Checklist
: : : Atlas
of Cyberspace : : : Once you've mastered the principles of evaluating
web resources, try out your skills by evaluating
this.
T171 Audible Goodies
My favourite online service. They produce
electronic audio books for download. They have loads of good stuff
for T171 students. I've had to use affiliate links because it was
the only way of linking to individual titles (because of the way
the java server pages work). I don't particularly like doing that
but that's the way the ball bounces. Clicking
on this link will take you to a list of useful titles by course.
Each one uses a session cookie for the transition. Personally, I
think their use of cookies is responsible and respectful of privacy,
but I know there's a certain amount of paranoia about, so if you
disagree with their privacy
policy, best leave it alone.
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