WWW-VL: History: Software: Spyware, virus protection, browsers, java script, web authoring software

WWW-VL: HISTORY: SOFTWARE

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Indexes
Browsers and Internet Tools
- Netscape 7.1
- Windows Update
- Opera 7.5u1 (small and fast web browser)
- Mozilla Firefox Version 1.0
- Real Player - free software player for audio files
- Internet Tools [Newbie's Guides for the New and Old Users]
- Scout Toolkit
Repositories and Download Sites
- Jumbo [Freeware and Shareware]
- Tucows Network
Spyware and Virus Protection

Cache Bashing Protect Your Company, by Brian Livingston [attacker uses a link at Google that leads to a cached copy of your company's Web page, copies it and posts it to a different site -- Google eliminates your page as a "duplicate".]
Gibson Research Corp. [Steve Gibson, software pioneer, offers very useful anti-spy ware and hard disk recovery programs]
PC World [safe source of antivirus and antispyware program downloads]

Specialized Downloads
- Stroud's Consummate Winsock Apps
- Literary Resources on the Net
- ReadPlease! [Text-to-speech software titles]
- Typography Microsoft [Tools for creating fonts and embedding web fonts]
Data Bases
- Database Central [materials, tutorials, etc.]
CGI Scripts
- Matt's Script Archive
Java Scripts
Search Engines
- ht://Dig Internet search engine software
Web Authoring
- Top Ten Mistakes of Web Management Jacok Nielsen, useit.com [1997 article that is still one of the best -- Nielsen is leader in website design]
- Web Authoring Help
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, Standard meta terms for search engines, Dublin, Ohio
- HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Home Page W3C (WWW Consortium)
- Website Tools for Non-Profits
- MPMA Technology Committee, Mountain-Plains Museums Association
Miscellaneous
- Digital Collections (DL SunSITE)
- Imaging/Machine Vision Software
- NoteBooks Wiki [Tips on taking notes and finding them later]
- Argon Zark! Tools [Electric Crayon Box]
- Nota Bene 7.0 Word processor for scholars [includes Orbis free-form text-retrieval system, fonts, et al]
The Future
- XML and the Second-Generation Web Scientific American
- Gordon Bell, MyLifeBits Project, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center Media Presence Group [Gordon invented minicomputers, PDP, VAX- type -- now storing his whole life on digital]
- Center for History and New Media George Mason University
- SuperComputing 2005 Technical Overview
- WSIS: The World Summit on the Information Society, First Phase: Geneva, 10-12 December 2003, UNESCO
- WSIS: The World Summit on the Information Society, Second Phase: Tunis, 2005, UNESCO
- Culture and the New Media Technologies, by Sally Jane Norman
- MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA [always a fun place to visit: see the future now]
- Marvin Minsky Home Page, MIT Media Lab and MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA
  [a father of AI, mentor to Danny Hillis; and author, The Society of Mind]
- W. Daniel Hillis, Applied Minds, Inc. [inventor, Connection Machine]
- Patrick Henry Winston MIT [currently Genesis Group for understanding intelligence; formerly Director, MIT AI Lab]
- Rodney A. Brooks Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA

WWW-VL History was established as HNSource (Kansas History Gateway) on 6 March 1993.

Site maintained by Douglas L. Miller (2004), Kansas Heritage Group. Thanks to Dr. Lynn H. Nelson, original author. Updated: 09 December 2005.

WWW-VL: History: Software
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