I just purchased a subscription to the ACM + Digital Library to get access to historical papers. Oh well. At least I can benefit from the free access to O'Reill

I just purchased a subscription to the ACM + Digital Library to get access to historical papers. Oh well. At least I can benefit from the free access to O'Reilly until their agreement is over. That being said, I'm glad they're opening access. This is huge. People should read more about early works that established our field. I personally am interested in the history of computing, especially operating systems and programming languages. I encourage the HN crowd to search for names like Edsger Dijkstra, Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare, Niklaus Wirth, Barbara Liskov, Per Brinch Hansen, David Parnas, Fred Brooks, Alan Perlis, John Backus, John McCarthy, Alan Kay, and many other pioneers in the field.