Writing (in) Cyberspace

Course Links

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Informational Websites

History of Computers and Communications: Online Resources
History-of-Hypertext Timeline
A Hypermedia Timeline
Timeline of Internet History (PBS)
Bell's Path to the Telephone
WWWVL History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Tim Sherratt)
Virtual Science Museum
Human Genome Project (Life Sciences Div., Los Alamos National Laboratory)
The Cyberspace and Critical Theory Overview
The Cyberpunk Project: William Gibson Page
Cyberpunk Page (quotes many brief definitions)
Virtual Museum of Technology
Heidi Pollock
This unusual site offers insight into the mind of "cyberjunkie."
NASA
NASA's history, scientific and technological advances, and plans for the future.
A Science Odyssey: 100 Years of Discovery Online
This is the companion site to the PBS series of the same name. Here, you can learn about the history of science in the twentieth century.


Digital/Intellectual Property

Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Welcome to Copyright.com
Computer Privacy Digest Homepage
Plagiarism and the Web
The Internet and the Ideology of Information Technology
Property Rights, Piracy, etc. Does Information "Want to be Free"?
Intellectual Property in Cyberspace
Hot Property: A Comprehensive Multimedia Law Site

Issues in Software Piracy:



Usenet

Lost in Usenet
Usenet News Groups
List of USENET FAQs by Newsgroup
Usenet - MUDs, MUSHes, MUSEs, MOOs, etc.
DirectoryKnowledge Base - What are Usenet newsgroups?
 

Hypertext


Netiquette


Print Culture and Electronic Media

"The Places of Books in the Age of Electronic Reproduction," by Geoffrey Nunberg
Media in Cyberspace
Re-Thinking the Book (short informational essays on the history of the book from its beginnings to contemporary hyper- and intertextuality)
History of Books and Printing: A Research Guide (bibliographies)
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, abridged text by Elizabeth Eisenstein
Early Printed Books Project, Oxford U.
History of Printing (Geoffrey Rubinstein / Jones Telecommunications & Multimedia Encyclopedia)

Typography Online


MOOs, MUDs, and other dirt

Research on MOOs and MUDs in Teaching
Kairos: Writing Classes on the MOO--a special issue of an online journal devoted to MOOs.
Composition in Cyberspace--includes discussion of the MOOs.
Basic Introduction to MOOs
Quick Guide to Mooing--mostly but not entirely applicable to RiverMoo
RiverMoo HomePage
MUDs and MUDding
Writings about MU*s
MUDs and MOOs