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In 2001, a senior engineer at State Software named Douglas Crockford made a simple but radical observation: JavaScript already contained a lightweight data interchange format hiding in plain…

In 2011, a Finnish security researcher stood on the TED stage in Edinburgh and held up a floppy disk. On it was Brain, the first PC virus ever…

In 2001, a Belgian student at the University of Antwerp built a small internal messaging board to stay connected with his dormmates. That modest project, born out of…

Long before the phrase “video game” entered everyday vocabulary, a German-American engineer in his mid-forties sat in a New Hampshire bus terminal and sketched an idea that would…

In March 1995, a software engineer in Portland, Oregon, installed a Perl script on a web server and invited his colleagues to edit a collection of pages about…

In the world of artificial intelligence, few papers have reshaped the entire field as decisively as “Attention Is All You Need.” Published in 2017, this landmark work introduced…

In 1995, a 24-year-old graduate student sued the United States government — and won. The weapon in question was not a firearm or classified document but a few…

In 1997, while the World Wide Web was still figuring out banner ads and guestbooks, a British cryptographer quietly published a system that would solve one of the…

In 1994, while the internet was still a curiosity for most people and the World Wide Web was barely three years old, a computer scientist and legal scholar…