Internet Tips & Tricks
By MARK DAVIS
General Manager, CommSpeed Internet Service
Vice
President, Prescott Computer Society
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Stroll Down Memory Lane
The
Web has many sites dedicated to nostalgia and history.
You can click your way down memory lane at the following
sites.
NostalgiaCentral.com -
A journey through three
decades of music, movies, television, and pop culture.
Looking for a blast from the past? If it's from the
60s, 70s or 80s you’ll find it here.
HistoryBuff.com
- focuses on how
newspapers covered major, and not so major, events in
American history.
Nostalgia.com
- More than 40,000 original movie posters and related
ephemera are on sale.
YesterdayUSA.Com
- Listen to old radio broadcasts such as Abbott and
Costello, Amos and Andy, Burns and Allen.
Biography.com
- A&E's award-winning television program on the Web.
More than 25,000 biographies and 2,500 videos. While
you’re at it, also visit
HistoryChannel.com.
TheHistoryNet.com
- This comprehensive site is laden with historical
information, personality profiles, eyewitness accounts,
interviews, photographs, and more.
FiftiesWeb.com
- Stroll on over to this site if you remember sock
hops, poodle skirts, circle pins, Dick Clark's American
Bandstand, and the Mouseketeers.
ComedyoRama.com
- Snippets of time captured from the golden age of radio
and television. Includes profiles, scripts, audio and
video clips and discussion groups.
Scriptorium.Lib.Duke.edu - The Library at Duke
University preserves thousands of items available for
online viewing. Check out Ad*Access, where you can view
over 7,000 advertisements printed in newspapers and
magazines between 1911 and 1955.
mcadams.posc.mu.edu
- If you remember Nov. 22, 1963 or would like to learn
more, visit the “Kennedy Assassination Home Page.”
Nostalgia-Unlimited.com - A site selling
everything from poodle skirts to carhop trays to
dashboard hula dolls.
Want more? Find other sites by going to
Google.com and
doing your own search. Suggested searches - Burma shave
signs, nostalgia, and historical websites.
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