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References and
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- Computing
Manchester University site celebrating years since the birth of BABY, the first computer with an electronic memory capable of storing not only data but also programmes.
Timeline of Events in Computing History covers a lot of the same territory as above but from a more American angle.
The Wallpaper Machine which uses the "morphogenesis", pattern generating differential equations work of Alan Turing (largely executed on BABY) as the basis for generating anthropomorphic patterning for your desktop.
Alan Turing, founder of computer science, mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker, strange visionary and a gay man before his time: his home page
Net art forums
Below is a non-comprehensive list of net art discussion forums, collections of net art etc.
Rhizome ezine on net and other art matters
nettime lowlands based BBS style threaded forum and news archive for web artists etc.
Foundation for Digital Culture NY conglomerate of virtual and otherwise galleries into digital art.
the thing stateside version of this threaded forum for net art things and people.
irational.org archive, work area for web artists.
äda'web, home to a number of great web art projects, recent and past.
la galería de net.art, well organized and fairly comprehensive Peruvian net art compendium.
Joglars, poetry type net art type gallery.
Net art readings
Homework syllabus for Natalie Bookchin's UCS 'net art' course includes voluminous suggested reading
Internet Philosophy and Psychology, readings writings and various musings from web aficionado and all round good person Alan Jennifer Sondheim.
Cybermind, electronic mailing list about Cyberspace.
Other interesting arty places