001 snowden-archive
All 474 leaked NSA (National Security Agency) documents made public by Edward Snowden in June, 2013.
002 SETUP32.EXE
America Online 3.0’s SETUP32.EXE, which was sent to hundreds of thousands of American households on CD-ROM throughout the 1990s
003 Legend of Zelda, The (U) (PRG1) [!].nes
Original Legend of Zelda game for 8-bit Nintendo, released in the U.S. on February 21, 1986
004 proposal.html
Tim Berners-Lee’s Information Management: A Proposal, published in March, 1989, laid the theoretical foundations for the modern internet.
005 Apollo-11
Code NASA wrote for the Command and Lunar Modules on the Apollo 11 mission, which landed people on the moon for the first time in 1969
006 bitcoin.pdf
Bitcoin white paper, written pseudonymous by Satoshi Nakimato in 2008
007 mainnet.json
The Ethereum blockchain’s genesis block, which launched on July 30th, 2015
008 the-declaration-of-independence-of-the-united-states-of-america-by-thomas-jefferson.txt
The first ebook, The Declaration of Independence, digitized by Michael S. Hart for Project Gutenberg in 1971
009 Microsoft MS-DOS 1.25 [CDP OEM R2.11] and Basic (5.25).7z
MS-DOS 1.25 was Microsoft’s first general purpose operating system for public consumption, released in April 1982
010 1.svg
CrypoPunk #1, the first in a series of 10,000 that inspired the ERC-721 standard on which all NFTs are based
011 Nyan Cat! [Official].mp4
Nyan Cat captured the spirit of the Internet in the early 2010s; animated by Chris Torres
012 master-pnp-ppbd-00300-00358u.tif
Barack Obama’s official presidential portrait is the first to be taken with a digital camera; photographed by Pete Souza
013 1968 “Mother of All Demos” by SRI’s Doug Engelbart and Team.mp4
Recorded demo by Douglas Engelbart and his team at the Stanford Research Institute showcasing a computer mouse, hyperlinks, video conferencing, multiple-user document editing, multiple windows, and networking; December 9, 1968
014 quantum-Frame000.tif–quantum-Frame178.tif
Quantum, an animated gif consisting of 178 frames by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, is widely considered the world’s first NFT. It was minted on the Namecoin blockchain on May 3, 2014.
015 Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6.exe
The last version of Netscape Navigator to be released before officially losing the “Browser Wars” of the 1990s to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer
016 IE 6.0 Full
No other browser in internet history attained more market share than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6, despite being noncompliant with web standards and prone to security flaws
017 Me at the zoo.mp4
First video uploaded to YouTube, by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, on April 23, 2005
018 craigslist_ new york jobs, apartments, for sale, services, community, and events.html
Craigslist.org’s homepage, whose design has remained the same since 2000
019 RANSOMWARE-WANNACRY-2.0
Launched in May, 2017, WannaCry infected over 230,000 Windows computers and caused billions in damages, making it one of the most harmful computer viruses ever released
020 tumblr_nkcjuq8Tdr1tnacy1o1_500.jpg
Everyone on the Internet in 2015 had an opinion on whether “the dress” was black and blue or white and gold, making it one of the first memes to achieve worldwide virality