1840s

• What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do?

1930s

• How to Use a Differential Analyzer (to Murder People)

1960s

• How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language
• The IBM 029 Card Punch
• OOP Before OOP with Simula
• The Most Important Database You've Never Heard of
• The Source History of Cat

1970s

• Important Papers: Codd and the Relational Model
• The Lineage of Man
• The Real Novelty of the ARPANET
• How the ARPANET Protocols Worked
• A Short History of Chaosnet
• Dawn of the Microcomputer: The Altair 8800
• Simulating the Altair

1980s

• Bulletin Board Systems: The VICE Exposé
• Codecademy vs. The BBC Micro
• Learning BASIC Like It's 1983
• Things You Didn't Know About GNU Readline
• The World Wide Web and Its Inventor

1990s

• Version Control Before Git with CVS
• Where Vim Came From
• How Much of a Genius-Level Move Was Using Binary Space Partitioning in Doom?
• The Ruby Story

2000s

• Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation
• Friend of a Friend: The Facebook That Could Have Been
• The Rise and Demise of RSS
• Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web?
• The Rise and Rise of JSON