Important, seminal documents relating to computing and Internet history, architecture, governance, and future.

• Claude Shannon: Programming a Computer for Playing Chess (1950) -- This theoretical paper outlined many of the foundational algorithms and techniques still central to much of computer game design today
• Norbert Wiener: Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation (1960)
• Richard Stallman: The GNU Manifesto (1985)
• Tim Berners-Lee: Information Management: A Proposal (1989-90) -- The original proposal of the World Wide Web
• Bill Gates: The Internet Tidal Wave (1995)
• John Perry Barlow: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)
• Eric S. Raymond: The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997+) -- link off to Raymond's still-evolving essay contrasting two different software development models and their applicability to the open-source movement
• Mike Masnick: Protocols, Not Platforms (2019)

• Attention is All You Need (2017) -- The quintessential magic of the transformer model