The catalog
Sixteen famous programs. Each one is a mug and a white tee.
In 1969 this routine lit the lunar module engine. Don Eyles traced the name BURN_BABY_BURN to DJ Magnificent Montague.
Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web server at CERN. On 30 April 1993 CERN placed httpd, the line-mode browser, and libwww in the public domain.
D. Richard Hipp's database sits inside phones and browsers. The authors gave the library to the public domain.
In December 2000 Aaron Swartz, then 14, helped the RSS-DEV group write RSS 1.0. He was one author among many.
GetBlockSubsidy starts at 50 BTC and cuts that reward in half every 210,000 blocks.
Tim Peters wrote the Zen of Python in PEP 20. The language hides the text in this.py behind a ROT13 puzzle.
In 2006 John Resig released jQuery. For a decade the web used its dollar function to find and change a page.
Thomas G. Lane and the Independent JPEG Group wrote the code that compresses digital photos.
Brian Kernighan made this the first program people still teach. The 1978 C book made it famous.
Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first website at info.cern.ch. The 1993 public-domain grant covers the software, not those words.
start_kernel is the function a Linux machine passes through as it boots.
In 2005 Linus Torvalds wrote Git after BitKeeper fell through. The first commit calls it the information manager from hell.
Greg Walsh wrote the fast inverse square root. The constant is 0x5f3759df. It shipped in id Software's Quake III and is often miscredited to John Carmack.
NIST published SHA-256 as FIPS 180. It is the hash inside Bitcoin and certificates.
Donald Knuth wrote TeX, the program that typeset modern science.
In 2017 Vaswani and co-authors published Attention Is All You Need. That paper is the core of current AI.