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    * [Up and Down The Ladder of Abstraction](https://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/) - (2011) Bret Victor
    * [The Future of Programming](https://vimeo.com/71278954) - (2013) Bret Victor
    * [Simple Made Easy](https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/SimpleMadeEasy.md)
    * [Simple Made Easy](https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/SimpleMadeEasy.md) - (2011) Rich Hickey
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    * [Up and Down The Ladder of Abstraction](https://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/) - (2011) Bret Victor
    * [The Future of Programming](https://vimeo.com/71278954) - (2013) Bret Victor
    * [Simple Made Easy](https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/SimpleMadeEasy.md)
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    ## Papers

    * [Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System](https://www.bitcoin.com/satoshi-archive/whitepaper/) - (2008) Satoshi Nakamoto
    * [Information Management: A Proposal](https://cds.cern.ch/record/369245/files/dd-89-001.pdf) - (1989-1990) Tim Berners-Lee
    * [How Software Comapnies Die](https://homepages.uc.edu/~thomam/Articles/HowSoftwareCompaniesDie.pdf) - (1995) Orson Scott Card: Originally from Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, March 1995
    * [Cascading Style Sheets](https://www.wiumlie.no/2006/phd/) - (2005) Håkon Wium Lie
    * [Out of the Tar Pit](https://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf) - (2006) [Ben Mosely](mailto:ben@moseley.name), [Peter Marks](mailto:public@indigomail.net);
    * [Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System](https://www.bitcoin.com/satoshi-archive/whitepaper/) - (2008) Satoshi Nakamoto
    * [What Screens Want](https://frankchimero.com/blog/2013/what-screens-want/) - (2013) Frank Chimero
    * [The Web's Grain](https://frankchimero.com/blog/2015/the-webs-grain/) - (2015) Frank Chimero

    ## Presentations

    * [The Future of Programming](https://vimeo.com/71278954) - (2013) Bret Victor
    * [Up and Down The Ladder of Abstraction](https://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/) - (2011) Bret Victor
    * [The Future of Programming](https://vimeo.com/71278954) - (2013) Bret Victor
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    * [How Software Comapnies Die](https://homepages.uc.edu/~thomam/Articles/HowSoftwareCompaniesDie.pdf) - (1995) Orson Scott Card: Originally from Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, March 1995
    * [Out of the Tar Pit](https://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf) - (2006) [Ben Mosely](mailto:ben@moseley.name), [Peter Marks](mailto:public@indigomail.net);

    ## Presentations
    ## Presentations

    * [The Future of Programming](https://vimeo.com/71278954) - (2013) Bret Victor
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    ## Papers

    * [How Software Comapnies Die](https://homepages.uc.edu/~thomam/Articles/HowSoftwareCompaniesDie.pdf) - Orson Scott Card: Originally from Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, March 1995
    * [Out of the Tar Pit](https://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf) - [Ben Mosely](mailto:ben@moseley.name), [Peter Marks](mailto:public@indigomail.net); 2006
    * [Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System](https://www.bitcoin.com/satoshi-archive/whitepaper/) - (2008) Satoshi Nakamoto
    * [How Software Comapnies Die](https://homepages.uc.edu/~thomam/Articles/HowSoftwareCompaniesDie.pdf) - (1995) Orson Scott Card: Originally from Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, March 1995
    * [Out of the Tar Pit](https://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf) - (2006) [Ben Mosely](mailto:ben@moseley.name), [Peter Marks](mailto:public@indigomail.net);

    ## Presentations
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    # "Must Read" Historical Computer Sicene Papers and presentations

    ## Papers

    * [How Software Comapnies Die](https://homepages.uc.edu/~thomam/Articles/HowSoftwareCompaniesDie.pdf) - Orson Scott Card: Originally from Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, March 1995
    * [Out of the Tar Pit](https://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf) - [Ben Mosely](mailto:ben@moseley.name), [Peter Marks](mailto:public@indigomail.net); 2006

    ## Presentations