Here's another entry that's a bit unorganized. It's also a bit more of a recent (and sometimes older) history related things that I learned about mostly through

Here's another entry that's a bit unorganized. It's also a bit more of a recent (and sometimes older) history related things that I learned about mostly through HN. Replies / additions to this are welcome. __Lisp (programming language)__ The Structure and Implementation of Computer Programs (you need to use a search engine for this, there are many different versions of it). Anything Paul Graham wrote about Lisp (e.g. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html) __Hacking__ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __Smalltalk (programming language)__ Alan Kay Smalltalk is not about objects, it's about messaging: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21852444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21852444 Smalltalk is awesome and one of the historical predecessors of Objective-C. __Xerox Parc__ Unfortunately, I don't know of any seminal paper or media piece. I just know they were hugely influential. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company) Alan Kay worked there.