Computing & IT
Homestead
Web building site
How Stuff Works
An excellent on-line technical encyclopedia
The Virtual Library
Computing - Contains a number of links for a wide area of Computing
BSI website
Provides information on the IT/Business company 'BSI'
Baby
Information about the world's first stored program computer built at Manchester University in 1948.
The Computer History Museum
The Science Museum
The Virtual Museum of Computing
Computing and computing-based exhibits, especially strong on British material
Virus Alert and Help Services
Symantec
Symantec's Anti-Virus Research centre
CIAC
The Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) of the US Department of Energy, help with hoax computer viruses and hoaxes in general.
Vmyths
The Vmyths.com website is a really useful place to start with your search for information about viruses.
Organisations and Companies
BCS
The British Computer Society
Association for Computing Machinery
An American counterpart to the BCS
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Excellent source of technical information
Microsoft
The Microsoft Knowledge Base
Use the same technical database called upon by the Microsoft Helpdesk staff.
Intel
Technical support and information from the most important manufacturer of central processor units.
IBM
Sun Microsystems
"High end" hardware and software including servers, networks and operating systems used in industry.
Publications and Training
Intelinfo
Free training and tutorials for many ICT topics
BBC Learning
Computer Concepts
Sections taken from an ICT textbook with a companion website
Computer Confluence
Part of another ICT textbook also with a companion website
Encyclopedia and dictionary of computing and I.T. terms
Webopedia
An excellent, well-illustrated encyclopedia of I.T. terminology
TechEncyclopedia
Similar resource to Webopedia
Free Online Dictionary of Computing
Definitions of every ICT term imaginable
Computing
The well-known weekly magazine, including an archive of back issues.
Computer Weekly
Another weekly computer magazine but the on line version contains extra material not found in the printed copy.
Microsoft Visual Basic
Technical documentation and code for Visual Basic developers
Learn VB
Another Visual Basic site, but this one allows you to contact other VB Programmers.
Delphi and Pascal Tutorials
Learn the Java Language
Basic and advanced Java