Computer Timelines
Triumph of the Nerds Timeline: The timeline that matches our videos and notes most closely. Apple, IBM, Microsoft, early WWW.
Nerds Microcomputer Overview: A good quick summary of the key PCs discussed in Triumph of the Nerds
Nerds 2.0.1 Internet Timeline: This directly relates to our course, and ties WW2, DARPA, MIT, and of course, Xerox PARC.]
A [British] Timeline of Computing History: From the W3C (Word Wide Web Consortium). A good 6-page overview. (The first page goes from 1763 to 1937.) As it says, This page was created in 1999 to counter-balance several other computer/computing histories and timelines which suggested that all the siginificant events occured in the USA. It illustrates that credible and accurate technology histories can still present a very biased view as a result of omissions.
Wikipedia: Presents a graphic from 1940-2008, and links to separate text articles for different eras.
IEEE Timeline: PDF file. A good history up to 1996, but it requires printing and cut-and-paste to really see it.
The History of Computing Project's timeline: An ambitious attempt, it has too much detail for our overview, and it is a bit informal. But it has some gems, like a page with da Vinci's calculator and "robot". This is the same general era as Copernicus and Galileo (50 years before Copernicus' book).