THE CODE ANYBODY MAY READ
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THE CODE ANYBODY MAY READ Book 1
4 parts · 13 h 52 min
Helsinki, 1969 to 1997. A Swedish-speaking Finnish student with a mail-order 386 and a half-finished terminal program posts a note to a newsgroup on 25 August 1991, says the thing he is writing is just a hobby and will not be big and professional, and gives away the source.
THE CODE ANYBODY MAY READ Book 2
4 parts · 15 h 11 min
Murray Hill, Amsterdam, Mountain View and Santa Clara, 1969 to 2021. Four languages are built by very small numbers of people and then have to answer a question none of their authors asked first: who decides what the language is?
THE CODE ANYBODY MAY READ Book 3
4 parts · 16 h 50 min
San Diego, Houston and Copenhagen, 1996 to 2026. Three projects took licenses written for compilers and pointed them at an encyclopedia, a publishing platform and a web framework. Jimmy Wales put a wiki beside a failing peer-reviewed encyclopedia and watched the wiki eat it.
THE CODE ANYBODY MAY READ Book 4
4 parts · 14 h 9 min
Provo, Austin, Baltimore, Paris and Mountain View, 1995 to 2024. Two rival Python array packages split a small scientific community in half, and one assistant professor at Brigham Young University spent a year of unpaid nights writing a third that absorbed both. NumPy shipped in 2006.
THE CODE ANYBODY MAY READ Book 5
4 parts · 14 h 36 min
Between 1980 and 2026 the world's computing came to rest on code given away and then maintained for years by people nobody was paying. This is an account of six of them and what the carrying cost.
THE CODE ANYBODY MAY READ Book 6
4 parts · 14 h 1 min
Menlo Park, New York, Paris and Hangzhou, 2013 to 2026. The thing being given away stops being source code and becomes a file of numbers nobody can read. Yann LeCun builds a research lab inside a social network on condition that it publishes everything.