Fortran Programming -- The Early Turning Point
- Chapter Excerpt from "Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, & Iconoclasts" by Steve Lohr, discussing the early history of Fortran.
- http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventions/a/Fortran.htm

Controversy, Compromise, Modernization: From FORTRAN to Fortran 90
- By Jeanne Adams. Describes the evolution of Fortran, focusing on the Fortran 90 standard.
- http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/tcg/consweb/Fortran90/scnhist.html

Fortran II manual
- Manual for the 1958 version of Fortran created by IBM.
- http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/704/C28-6000-2_704_FORTRANII.pdf

History of FORTRAN and FORTRAN II
- Pilot project of the Computer History Museum's Software Collection Committee to develop expertise in the collection, preservation, and presentation of historic software. The specific goal of this project was to locate source code, design documents, and o
- http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/projects/FORTRAN/

Wikipedia: Fortran
- An encyclopedia description of Fortran history with many links to programming terms.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran

Fortran 77
- A brief history of Fortran 77 with some links.
- http://www.liv.ac.uk/HPC/HTMLF90Course/HTMLF90CourseNotesnode29.html#SECTION00031000000000000000

Fortran Versions
- A brief history of Fortran versions 1 to Fortran 95.
- http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/fortran/ch1-1.html

Fortran 66 standard
- In PDF format.
- http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/languages/ansi-x3dot9-1966-Fortran66.pdf

IBM 704 Fortran Manual
- Manual for the first version of Fortran (1956).
- http://www.fortran.com/ibm.html

WATFOR's Silver Anniversary
- Describes the history of WATFOR, a dialect of Fortran, from 1965 to 1990.
- http://csgwww.uwaterloo.ca/sdtp/watfor.html

Fortran: The First Successful High Level Programming Language
- Short essay by Mary Bellis, part of the "Inventors of the Modern Computer Series" series.
- http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa072198.htm

Fortran I
- Images from and discussion of the first Fortran manual, published in October 1956.
- http://www.paulgraham.com/history.html