History of Computing
How we got from mechanical calculators to whatever this is.
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No prior grounding assumed.
- EssayAs We May ThinkVannevar Bush, 1945· ≈8,000 words
Proposes the memex, an associative trail-following machine, and anticipates hypertext by two decades.
- EssayThe Cathedral and the BazaarEric S. Raymond, 1997
Open, parallel development can outperform closed planning because bug-finding parallelises even when design does not.