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We decided to plough the history of the entire Internet, from the roots of its underlying technology, to the Web properties that helped it explode, the litigation it endured on the way and disasters companies have suffered as a result of the Net's popularity. We've picked 50 of what we think are the most significant moments, in ten categories spanning almost 40 years of Internet history:

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The Finch is a new robot for computer science education. Its design is the result of a four year study at Carnegie Mellon's CREATE lab. The Finch is made to easily integrate into high school and college CS courses. Institutions piloting the Finch have shown improved retention and year-over-year enrollment growth in their CS1 courses.

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Does the computer industry seem just a little too strange? Never fear: Monty Python encapsulated several nuggets of wisdom years ago that summarize exactly what is behind the sometimes-tawdry behavior.

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Test any website and see real-time if it's censored in China.

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The Internet: It's growing faster than we can manage to keep up. Penetrating our professional and personal lives, this tool brings the world to our fingertips with a click of a mouse or cell phone button. But with this increase in information also comes an influx of misinformation.

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Interesting article about passwords and hacking. Special note should be taken about things done on the server side. Read the FAQ located here: http://www.baekdal.com/tips/the-usability-of-passwords-faq as well.

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At its core, RoboEarth is a World Wide Web for robots: a giant network and database repository where robots can share information and learn from each other about their behavior and their environment.

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Free Anti-Virus, from Microsoft, I use the Microsoft Security Essentials for my home computers!

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A feature article at the TeraGrid website takes a look at the most common building blocks of today's supercomputers, the ubiquitous CPUs and GPUs. Interest in GPUs was already high when China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer achieved a number one TOP500 ranking using the power of the graphics chips.

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In computer programming, an indent style is a convention governing the indentation of blocks of code to convey the program's structure. This article largely addresses the C programming language and its descendants, but can be (and frequently is) applied to most other programming languages (especially those in the curly bracket family). Indent style is just one aspect of programming style.

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Why does UPS plan its routes to eliminate as many left turns as possible?  All kinds of ideas for a computer science problem.

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Search over 500 – 90 second Job Videos in every field

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Microsoft says 36 million copies of the beta and release candidate have been downloaded in the last seven months.

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One of the benefits of the direction that’s been taken with the next release of Ubuntu is that there is no longer a need for a separate netbook edition. The introduction of the new shell for Ubuntu means that we have a user interface that works equally well whatever the form factor of the PC.

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Microsoft Resources for Technical Educators and Students

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What a programmer does for a living is best illustrated by writing a program yourself.

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A guide to engineering for high school girls.

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If you're a mobile worker who likes to go online using public Wi-Fi services--in coffee shops and elsewhere--you probably don't realize how insanely reckless you're being.

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Recently I had someone ask me a question I wanted to share with you. They asked me why in the heck their IP address appeared to be coming from the other side of the country? Honestly, I can understand why this would freak someone out! Imagine not understanding what is going on as you do an IPChicken.com check only to see the IP looking odd. Then you run a speed test and learn you’re suddenly based in another region of the country. I mean come on, that is just going to feel weird to the uninformed.

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Underfunded schools in Canada and other countries are using a new, inexpensive, Canadian-made networking software to provide computer access to more students for less money.

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