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Cryptography, Mathematics, Science, Astronomy, and Space, Computing, Cartography, Communications and Signaling

Nostalgia and Collectibles
Decoder Wheels, Old Typewriters, View-Master viewers and reels, Other Toys, Other Nostalgia

Technological Nostalgia
Pocket Calculators, Old Computers, Slide Rules

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Mathematics, Science, and Technology

Cryptography

A page within the web site for the U.S.S. Pampanito, now a museum in the Fishermen's Wharf area of San Fransisco, that describes the SIGABA cipher machine used with it, in considerable detail - said details having been declassified only recently.

The Crypto Drop Box, a rich treasure trove of cryptographic resources, and the web site of the American Cryptogram Association, an organization you may have heard of if you've read Gaines' Elementary Cryptanalysis.

The home page of David A. Wagner, originator of the Boomerang Attack.

The home page of Eli Biham, the originator of differential cryptanalysis.

Cryptologic Nooks and Crannies, an excellent site about codebooks and pencil-and-paper ciphers. Jim Reeds, at AT&T, also has an excellent page about code books, including a large text file listing those in existence, and several code books are described on Rick Fowler's home page which also deals with several other topics.

Computer Security, Encryption, and Cryptanalysis, the home page of J. Peschel, lists a considerable number of resources about computing and cryptography. Mr. Peschel also has, at another location, a copy of the fine Classical Cryptography Course, converted to HTML, on the web. (Actually, it is accessible from his main site, but the link may not be visible on some older browsers.)

Toby's Cryptopage: a fine site in Sweden, with information on many cipher machines, and many fine pictures.

(This link is no longer valid, but this mirror site is available.)Crypto-Log: an excellent page of links on cryptography

The following Canadian page includes a large number of photographs of many cipher machines, including several recent ones for which descriptions cannot be included.

The web site of Frode Weierud, with some interesting documents and pointers.

David Hamer's web site, with information about cipher machines including some papers.

An unofficial web page about the activities of Canada's black chamber, or counterpart to the NSA: the Communications Security Establishment.

The home page of Brian Gladman, which includes source code for a number of cryptographic algorithms.

Nautical Brass, the web site of the electronic version of a magazine with articles on naval history, which also included a series of articles on the history of World War II cryptology.

Terry Ritter's web site; the web site of a professional designer of encryption programs. These programs appear to be secure and well-designed; but, because Mr. Ritter doesn't slavishly follow the current conventional wisdom, he is sometimes unjustly confused with the horde of people who are out there offering quite insecure systems with exaggerated claims. The site is informative, both with details about his products and general cryptographic information, such as a cryptographic glossary.

The Spooks Newsletter, an archive of a newsletter with a considerable amount of information about codes and ciphers. Its primary topic is listening to the mysterious "numbers stations" and utility transmissions of a mysterious nature.

Codebreaker Online; the web site for R. Reynard, author of the book "Secret Code Breaker" and other books in the series, books with accompanying computer programs to interest the younger reader in the fascinating world of codes and ciphers.

About Enigma and Its Decryption is the descriptive title of this page.

A Danish-language page about the Enigma and about cryptography in general.

A cryptography page in the Korean language. And one in Swedish.

This page, and this page are two other pages about cryptography on Xoom, discussing such matters as how to obtain PGP. As pages on services like Xoom are sometimes harder to find on search engines, I thought I would mention them, as well as those in the next paragraph.

And here is The Data Encryption Page, an award-winning site, and Encypher's home page, with an essay on conventional cryptography, and the Bolo page, with information on Diffie-Hellman and other algorithms, and Data Encryption and Cryptography.

Mathematics

Favorite Mathematical Constants: a page about other numbers almost as famous as pi.

A site that seems to contain an outline of much of modern mathematics; pages from it often turn up in my web searches. Due to the publication in book form of the information from this site, it is not all available each day.

The home page of Mike Keith which has quite a bit of information about topics in recreational mathematics.

The Geometry Junkyard, a site with links to many interesting pages about geometry, some with nice pictures.

Geometry of the Fourth Dimension, a page about four-dimensional solids such as the hypercube.

This page is about Peek, a computer program for visualizing the four-dimensional solids which are similar to the Platonic solids.

This page is about another program, called DRAW4D.

And this is the home page of Eric Swab, which includes a larger-sized stereo view of the 120-cell.

And this page belongs to the individual who coined the word polychoron for a four-dimensional polytope.

A page about Octave, a symbolic math language available as part of the GNU project.

The Atlas of Finite Group Representations

This thesis by Joe Fields finally explained the binary Golay code - the only nontrivial perfect error-correcting binary code other than the Hamming binary codes - simply enough that even I could understand it.

This link is to Roy Williams' Pi Page.

And this is Dara's Pi Page, which includes a very efficient program to calculate the value of pi.

The web site for the Mars Global Surveyor.

A set of Frequently Asked Questions about Relativity and the possibility of faster-than-light travel.

Computing

The home page for Minix, the operating system that inspired Linux.

The home page for the GNU project, which produced most of the software that made Linux useful.

The web site of Dr. Dobb's Journal, a magazine for microcomputer software developers.

Cartography

The Picture Gallery of Map Projections by Hans Havlicek displays a variety of map projections in different aspects.

A beautiful page on map projections, by Carlos A. Furuti.

A page concerning Map History with many links.

Communications and Signaling

Signal Flag Systems: a page within a maritime history site that gives several old systems, in addition to the current one, of signal flags used by ships.

A page from a Computer Museum in Amsterdam, by Dik Winter, giving codes used with computers and in communications.

Nostalgia and Collectibles

Decoder Wheels

Old-Time Radio Premiums is a site with some Captain Midnight and Little Orphan Annie decoder wheels displayed.

Old Typewriters

The Classic Typewriters Page: features the typewriter of the month.

View-Master viewers and reels

The View-Master® Homepage, an unofficial site

The View-Master Ultimate Reel List, which is just what its title says

View-Master Viewers, another interesting site (uses frames).

An illustrated article about View-Master viewing.

This site has information about some rare and old viewers missed by other sites.

Other Toys

LEGO® Purists' Web Site, a page for people who feel that bricks should be useful in building anything.

Meccano Home Page, an official Community Content Provider, but on the same server as this mere personal home page.

Other Nostalgia

Burma Shave Slogans, one of several locations with this apparently complete list of the old Burma-Shave signs.

The Telephone Exchange Name Project, a site that assembles information about the time when the first two digits in every telephone number were given as two letters, beginning a word, possibly identifying the neighborhood the telephone exchange covered.

A page listing a great many codebooks as used, not to send secret messages, but to save money in sending telegrams.

Technological Nostalgia

Calculators

A site about pocket calculators with many links and a large selection of pictures, including pictures of many calculators from Europe, including Eastern Europe.

The HP Calculator Museum which covers this influential brand of calculator in detail.

The Museum of Soviet Calculators on the Web is this interesting and award-winning site.

Old Calculators, a page about one individiual's collection of old electronic and mechanical calculators.

A site about the desktop calculators produced by Wang Laboratories.

Slide Rules

A site about slide rules with many pictures and links.

This site, Kung's On-Line Slide Rule Bookmark, has many links all over the web about slide rules.

Old Computers

A site about the IBM 7090 computer with many photographs and a description of its instruction set.

The UNIVAC 1107/1108/1110 Instruction Set is the subject of this site, by the founder of the company that gave us AutoCAD.

And here is the BESM-6 Nostalgia Page, which gives the instruction set of an old Soviet computer with a 48-bit word.

The CHAC History Pages contain many links to pages about old computers.

This site has the reference card for the IBM 1401, a business-oriented computer that operated on numbers as variable-length text strings.

A site with coverage of the DEC PDP-1 computer, a computer with an 18-bit word length that began the story of the company that brought the world the PDP-8 and the Alpha.

This site features the excellent computer collection of Paul Pierce, including many DEC minicomputers.

The Mind Machine Web Museum has pictures of many old computers.

This site, The Machine Room, has many pictures of old computers, including a number peculiar to Britain or Continental Europe.

An excellent history of computing from the 1970s onwards.

Although more of a toy than a data processor, the Digi-Comp I is commemorated here.

The Arts

Music

The Unofficial John Williams Home Page, in its new location. Like my site, it was created with the aid of a text editor.

A Lesley Gore Page, honoring an American singer who had an early debut and held her own against the Beatles' first big hit records.

The Lesley Gore Homepage is another page about this singer.

What is Change Ringing? is the question answered at this web page.

Graphic Arts

The Escher Art Collection, a site that displays some of the artwork of Maurits C. Escher with permission.

The Nicholas Roerich Museum features the art of an artist who you may have heard of in the writings of H. P. Lovecraft.

A page of links to Ascii-art web pages.

Entertainment, Literature, and Drama

Books

The J. R. R. Tolkien Information Page, a fine site concerning the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

Edgar Rice Burroughs: Creator of Tarzan returns to the web after an absence of several months, at a new URL. (This link appears to be invalid now.)

A scholarly study of the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs is featured on this attractive site (which uses frames).

H. G. Wells is the author featured at this web site.

The Isaac Asimov Home Page has a FAQ and several links concerning this well-known author.

And this site concerns the works of Robert A. Heinlein.

A Harry Turtledove Website, about this author who specializes in alternate history novels, such as A Different Flesh.

PERNtinent Information, a web site about the Pern novels and stories by Anne McCaffrey.

Her Majesty's Secret Servant is an interesting site about James Bond, with information on the novels and the films. Another page about this famous fictional secret agent is also offered.

The H. P. Lovecraft Archive, a page about an author of unusual science-fiction horror works.

The H. P. Lovecraft Tribute Page, another page about this author.

www.vogon.com, a site about Douglas Adams' The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

You've read the translation of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat by Edward Fitzgerald, with about 100 quatrains. But this translation contains 500 quatrains (and Omar Khayyam actually wrote about 850 of them which survive)!

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest has this as its official home.

Television

A page about the science-fiction television show The Time Tunnel, which has recently become available again to Canadian viewers thanks to Space: The Imagination Station.

This site is the unofficial Avengers Home Page.

And this site celebrates Mission: Impossible.

This site, a personal home page, has sections on Space 1999 and a number of other television shows.

John C.'s Battlestar Galactica Page, the Battlestar Galactica Original Costume and Prop Museum, and, best of all Kobol.com are sites that celebrate this entertaining, if unpretentious, science-fiction television series. (Note that the last of the three sites named has a policy against links to pages internal to the site without permission; its authors are presumably concerned about unfair advantage being taken of its rich graphical content.)

This site celebrates the TV show Get Smart.

And this site commemorates Hogan's Heroes.

This site involves both nostalgia and television: The Golden Age of TV Space Heroes.

Comic Books

A page about Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 A.D., my all-time favorite comic book (although this site focuses on the later Valiant run, not the classic Russ Manning issues)

A page devoted to the comic book Space Family Robinson, another one I enjoyed from Gold Key.

The Kryptonian Cybernet, the site of an electronic newsletter related to DC Comics and Superman in particular.

A page discussing many of the old DC comics featuring Superman and related characters.

A fan site called the Superman Homepage.

This site is devoted to the Legion of Super-Heroes, a DC team of super-powered teenagers in the far future.

This site, The Marvel Family Web, commemorates the former Fawcett superhero Captain Marvel.

This is the official site for the Star Wars® series of movies.

Web of the Cliffhangers is the name of this site, devoted to movie serials.

Recreation and Other

Games

The Chess Variants Pages: includes downloadable version of that giant site, with information on nearly any variant version of chess you may have heard of.

The homepage of Arthur Olsen, with an extensive section on the game of checkers.

I Collect Monopoly Sets, a nice page with information about the many international versions of Monopoly.

A site about the history of Traditional Board Games.

The Medieval & Renaissance Games Home Page with many links and much interesting content of its own, including the transcript of a complete old book on Rithmomachy.

Phil Holland's Shogi Page, about the Japanese version of chess.

The Roman Board Games page, many illustrations.

The Colossal Cave Adventure Page, a page celebrating the original computer game of Adventure as developed by Crowther and Woods. (Corrected link)

This page is about Freecell, a computer game available in many implementations, but best known in its Microsoft incarnation.

this site are about the computer game Castle of the Winds, with exciting news about it (the second part is now freely available).

And this page is about Gess, a form of chess played with the Go stones and board which is perhaps too profound for mere human beings.

Humour

John Vansickle's Science-Fiction Pages contain some humorous articles giving a look at infamous plot cliches found in science-fiction on the small and silver screens.

Other Links

Eric's history of Perpetual Motion and Free Energy Machines is a site about the history of the search for perpetual motion, and the frauds that have been perpetuated during that search.

The home page of Randall Woods contains an interesting discussion of Perpetual Motion Machines as well.

Reading Egyptian Hieroglyphics - First Steps is a series of pages with a nice introduction to the ancient Egyptian language. Also available in Flemish.

The WWW Virtual Library is a good source of content-rich pages.

Top Pages of the Edmonton Free-Net from which I learned how to put a counter on my original page (his page had one typo, though...)

The home page of VisionSmart Inc., a company owned by a former employer of mine whom I also remember from my school days.

The home page of Seward Consulting Ltd., a company for which I worked for more recently.

The personal home page of Vaughn Seward, its owner.

Savards of America, a site about genealogy which, actually, primarily deals with the Savards of Canada (America is used in the Latin sense, meaning the Americas in English).


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