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Comment on Ask HN: Alan Kay says programing is pop culture. Where can I find the classics?

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Most important software innovations, 1837 -- http://www.dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html#innovatio...

Origins and precursors, 1936 - 1982: Turing, Von Neumann, Shannon, etc. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/classics/cs298.html

A Golden Age? 1964 -- 1974 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2059

Significant new inventions in computing since 1980 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-in...

Lisp machines, other language-based machines and OS: Smalltalk, etc. https://github.com/jon-jacky/Piety/blob/master/doc/precursor...

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