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1985Byte Magazine: Declarative Languages (archive.org)
1246 points across 11 posts | 6 months ago with 52 comments
1983Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (archive.org)
1245 points across 11 posts | 6 months ago with 275 comments
1987Byte Magazine: Prolog and 386 Hardware Software (archive.org)
811 points across 9 posts | 7 months ago with 8 comments
1984Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (archive.org)
811 points across 9 posts | 7 months ago with 113 comments
2003Internet Archive gets DMCA exemption to help archive vintage software (archive.org)
470 points across 2 posts | 2 weeks ago with 44 comments
1979Byte Magazine: LISP (archive.org)
445 points across 2 posts | 7 months ago with 107 comments
1988The Awk Programming Language (archive.org)
415 points | 6 years ago with 103 comments
1987Higher Math for Beginners (archive.org)
315 points | 1 year ago with 89 comments
1998Furby source code (archive.org)
304 points | 2 months ago with 79 comments
1992A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (archive.org)
297 points | 1 year ago with 171 comments
1980Byte Magazine: The Forth Language (archive.org)
285 points across 3 posts | 8 months ago with 89 comments
1961Harrison Bergeron (archive.org)
240 points | 5 months ago with 268 comments
1984The UNIX Programming Environment (archive.org)
231 points | 6 months ago with 105 comments
2011X Minus One: 1950s Science Fiction Radio Programs Available to Listen (archive.org)
213 points | 2 years ago with 62 comments
1994Introduction to Permaculture (archive.org)
197 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments
1988The Complete Hypercard Handbook (archive.org)
193 points | 1 year ago with 68 comments
1998The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (archive.org)
160 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments
1983Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Design (archive.org)
156 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
1979Atari Star Raiders Source Code (archive.org)
145 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments
1983BYTE Magazine: The C Language (archive.org)
141 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments
1965Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerrilla Warfare (archive.org)
133 points | 1 year ago with 30 comments
1978Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu: The End of Hot Metal Typesetting at the NY Times (archive.org)
127 points across 2 posts | 10 months ago with 2 comments
1982Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (archive.org)
124 points | 1 year ago with 84 comments
1991Beyond Cyberpunk: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Future (archive.org)
116 points | 2 years ago with 5 comments
1984Whole Earth Software Catalog (archive.org)
114 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments
1982Report warns computers may threaten constitutional rights (archive.org)
113 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
1994The Way Things Work CD-ROM (archive.org)
104 points | 2 months ago with 24 comments
1944Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (archive.org)
103 points | 4 years ago with 50 comments
1982An Overview of TUNIS: A UNIX Look-Alike Written in Concurrent Euclid (archive.org)
101 points | 6 months ago with 45 comments
1985Why Forth Isn't Slow (archive.org)
101 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments
1988The World Is Built on Probability (archive.org)
95 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
1981Landing the Nostromo (archive.org)
92 points | 8 years ago with 42 comments
1919Diary of a little girl in old New York (archive.org)
90 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments
1991HyperCard Stack: Douglas Adams' Megapode Nest Volume Calculator (archive.org)
89 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
1981Computing e to 116,000 Places with a Personal Computer (archive.org)
84 points | 4 weeks ago with 28 comments
1979The Timeless Way of Building (archive.org)
84 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
1981Byte Magazine: Future Computers (archive.org)
84 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments
1946ENIAC Operating Manual (archive.org)
83 points | 3 years ago with 20 comments
1939Graphic Presentation (archive.org)
82 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
1974Cybernetics A to Z (archive.org)
80 points | 4 months ago with 17 comments
1966Theory of self-reproducing automata (archive.org)
80 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
1928Plotto: A new method of plot suggestion for writers of creative fiction (archive.org)
78 points | 11 months ago with 11 comments
1978The Joys of Unix – NSA Cryptolog (archive.org)
78 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments
19841984, the Year of the 32-bit Microprocessor (archive.org)
78 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments
1914Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts (archive.org)
75 points | 1 year ago with 25 comments
1994Microsoft Space Simulator (archive.org)
73 points | 1 year ago with 29 comments
1980Omikron TRS-80 Boards, NEWDOS+ and Sundry Other Matters (archive.org)
73 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments
1898The Modern Bicycle and Its Accessories (archive.org)
71 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
1992The Dead Mac Scrolls (archive.org)
69 points | 1 year ago with 12 comments
1983IBM Logo Manual (archive.org)
68 points | 1 year ago with 32 comments
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