Pieces about the internet that were right, or wrong in an instructive way, and that people still send each other. Some are manifestos, one is a research paper that became a company, one is a single page of profanity with a point.
Operating systems as cultures: Apple as a Disney ride, Linux as a free tank. Wrong about a lot now and still the most entertaining essay on what an OS is for.
'Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.' The essay that made open source legible to businesses. Read it knowing the bazaar has since been partly enclosed.
'Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel.' Gloriously wrong, and the clearest record of what people hoped this would be.
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Aviation plateaued and so will computing; stop building for a future that isn't coming and build for the web we have. Also the funniest talk on this list.
A text page should not weigh more than Crime and Punishment. Every point still stands and the pages got heavier. Bindle's landing page is under 200KB partly because of this.
You don't need a hit; you need a thousand people who'll pay you $100 a year. The economic model behind every indie product, including this one.
The Google paper, when Google was a Stanford project called BackRub. Appendix A warns that advertising-funded search engines will be biased against users. They wrote that.
One page, no CSS, and a complete argument about what the web is for. Read the follow-ups too; the joke has a serious tail.