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The 10 Most Important Computer Documents You've Never Seen
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1945: John von Neumann,“First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC"
The first published description of the logical design of a computer using the stored-program concept.
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While Hopper did not actually find the first known computer bug–machine operators removed the moth and attached it to the log–she was the first to document its discovery.
1947: Grace Hopper,Harvard Mark II Log Book Entry
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One of the earliest extant letters in which Turing discusses artificial intelligence (what he called machine intelligence) and the number of brain neurons.
1948: Alan Turing,Correspondence Written to Jack Good
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“Sandy” Douglas’s Ph.D. thesis, written while he was a student at the University of Cambridge, was the origin of the first computer game, a version of tic-tac-toe called OXO.
1954: Alexander Shafto Douglas,“Some Computations in Theoretical Physics”
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Price’s article in the June 1959 issue of Scientific American described the Antikythera Mechanism, created around 80 BC and now believed to be the world’s oldest analog computer.
1959: Derek J. de Solla Price,"An Ancient Greek Computer"
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The first email message will forever remain undocumented because creator Ray Tomlinson, not realizing its importance at the time, neglected to save a copy.
1971: Ray Tomlinson,“Something Like ‘QWERTYUIOP’"
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Microsoft’s initial product, software that was written expressly to run on MITS’s Altair (and the later subject of a lengthy court battle over who owned the rights to the program).
1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen,Title Page of the Code for Altair BASIC
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The conception of the Internet, a proposal that Berners-Lee’s advisor at CERN called “vague but exciting.”
1989: Tim Berners-Lee,“Information Management: A Proposal"
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The first page to be edited on Wikipedia, the website that has forever altered the way we gather, edit and research information–and is the bane of many a professor.
2001: Jimmy Wales,Wikipedia: UuU
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This decision focused on warrantless cell phone searches by police but almost certainly will apply to other computer devices and have a monumental impact on data privacy.
2013: United States Supreme Court,“RILEY v. CALIFORNIA"
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