This is a fascinating site for anyone interested in computer history.

In fact, I take that back. Anyone who has a cellphone, an MP3 player, a Blackberry, a MySpace/Facebook page, or a Web connection should be thrilled to take a look at the origins of the technologies and individuals that made all this possible.

The revolution brought about by computers is my favorite kind of uprising, and let’s hope it’s not the last of its kind. It started with the people, smart, curious young people, inventing, questioning, and pushing the envelope. Corporations, for the most part, saw absolutely no future in all this, no application whatsoever. It was the hobbyists, citizen scientists and hackers who created this new world, and who continue to create its world-changing innovations.

Sites like this help me remember that, and they also remind me that rampant corporatization and anti-freedom regulation of Internet technologies should be vigorously resisted if we’re to protect the future of this amazing resource we’ve all brought about.