IT History Society April 13, 2010 The Board of Directors of the IT History Society is pleased to introduce to you and the information technology community its latest addition to the IT History Society website. With the many contributions from IT History Society members, the IT historical community at large, and partnering with the Internet Archive <http://www.internetarchive.org/> , and Archive-IT <http://www.archive-it.org/> , we are pleased to introduce to you a unique searchable database of 233 international information technology historical and archival collections. This searchable database today is comprised of 2,433,522 documents which uses 195.16 gigabytes of storage. Every 30 days, each one of the 233 sites is crawled and text indexed to include changes and additions that have occurred at each collection, including new sites that have been added to the database. Currently, 23 sites are blocked from our crawl and we are taking steps to contact each webmaster to have the sites unblocked. The listing of all 233 sites that have information technology historical significance are located at http://ithistory.org/resource_sites/resource-sites.php Try a few searches out and see the great results that can occur in a few seconds. Yes, one can do these types of searches on Google. etc., but here there is NO clutter, it is all about information technology search results. If you know of a site that might be included in the database, please submit your suggestion at http://ithistory.org/resource_sites/resource-form.php We do hope you find value with the IT historical database. This database will be a continual ongoing work in process. If you have any comments, suggestions, or want to note any corrections, please contact us at info@ithistory.org This eight month effort was not possible without the contributions and assistance of many. If you know of an information technology associate or colleague that may want to become a member of the Society, please refer them to http://ithistory.org/membership/member-form.php for a membership application. The IT History Society, in addition to individual members, looking for new institutional and corporate members. Please refer them to the same application form. Please remember that at this time, there is no cost to join. Thank you. Best regards, Jeffery D. Stein Chairman (415) 435-7464 Tel (415) 435-6115 Fax http://www.ithistory.org IT History Society One Blackfield Drive Suite 331 Tiburon, CA 94920 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Email that means Business, Every email, Every day! - LetterClick BrandMail(TM) found only at www.letterclick.net