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The 10 Most Important Computer
Documents You’ve Never Seen

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.
# 1

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
# 2

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
# 3

“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”
# 4

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"
# 5

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’"
# 6

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
# 7

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"
# 8

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
# 9

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"
# 10

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