Links
Places I hang out 
- Two Stop Bits - discussion site for retro computing & gaming
- Lobsters - computing-focused link aggregator
- Hacker News - the orange site
- Vintage Computer Federation Forums - vintage computer collectors & restorers
- Tiny Tapeout - design your own chip and get it manufactured for real
- Asianometry - Jon Y's newsletter (and YouTube channel) on the history of semiconductors and the companies that make them
- SIGBOVIK - the Association for Computational Heresy's joke computer science conference, held every April 1st
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Retro hardware & electronics
- Ben Eater's 6502 computer - build a computer on breadboards
- Visual 6502 - watch a 6502 simulate transistor by transistor
- Ken Shirriff's blog - reverse engineering chips from die photos
- Bitsavers - scanned manuals & docs for old machines
- Hackaday - fresh hacks every day
- Living Computers: Museum + Labs - the former Seattle museum where you could sit down and actually use vintage computers (Wikipedia)
- Living Computers on GitHub - the museum's emulators and restoration tools, like ContrAlto (Xerox Alto) and Darkstar (Xerox Star)
- American Computer & Robotics Museum - Bozeman, Montana's museum of computing and robotics history, open since 1990
- Commodore 64 User's Guide (1982) - the manual that came with every C64, and a friendly intro to BASIC
- The C Programming Language, 2nd edition (1988) - Kernighan & Ritchie's ANSI C edition, a.k.a. K&R, from its publisher (free sample chapter and all the example code)
- BYTE Magazine archive - scanned issues of the classic computer magazine (1975–1998) on the Internet Archive
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Great labs
- Nokia Bell Labs - still going: the lab that gave us the transistor, information theory, Unix and C
- Xerox PARC - the office of the future: the Alto, Ethernet, laser printing and Smalltalk (now part of SRI)
- SRI International - Doug Engelbart's lab, home of the mouse and the Mother of All Demos
- MIT CSAIL - descendant of MIT's Project MAC and AI Lab, where time-sharing and hacker culture grew up
- IBM Research - the lab behind the hard disk, the scanning tunneling microscope, and a shelf of Nobel prizes
- Draper - the former MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, whose Apollo Guidance Computer flew to the Moon
- The Silicon Engine - the Computer History Museum's timeline of how chips happened, from the first transistor to the microprocessor
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Old web fun
- info.cern.ch - the very first website, still up at CERN
- Telnet BBS Guide - a directory of old-school bulletin board systems you can still dial into over telnet
- lolchat.rip - sign on to a 1996-style online service and drop into its chat rooms
- Neocities - free hosting for handmade personal websites
- Space Jam (1996) - a timeless classic
- GifCities - search old GeoCities gifs
- Museum of Lost Sounds - dial-up modems, floppy drives, rotary phones, and other sounds from obsolete tech
- Wayback Machine - internet time travel
