"You are not expected to understand this": how 26 lines of code changed the world

The first line of code / Elena Botella

Monte Carlo algorithms: random numbers in computing from the H-Bomb to today / Benjamin Pope

Jean Sammet and the code that runs the world / Claire L. Evans

Spacewar: collaborative coding and the rise of gaming culture / Arthur Daemmrich

BASIC and the illusion of coding empowerment / Joy Lisi Rankin

The first email: the code that connected us online / Margaret O'Mara

The police beat algorithm: the code that launched computational policing and modern racial profiling / Charlton McIlwain

"Apollo 11, do bailout" / Ellen R. Stofan and Nick Partridge

The most famous comment in Unix history: "you are not expected to understand this" / David Cassel

The accidental felon / Katie Hafner

Internet relay chat: from fish-slap to LOL / Sucan C. Herring

Hyperlink: the idea that led to another, and another, and another / Brian McCullough

JPEG: the unsung hero in the digital revolution / Hany Farid

The viral internet image you've never seen / Lily Hay Newman

The pop-up ad: the code that made the internet worse / Ethan Zuckerman

Wear this code, go to jail / James Grimmelmann

Needles in the world's biggest haystack: the algorithm that ranked the internet / John MacCormick

A failure to interoperate: the lost Mars climate orbiter / Charles Duan

The code that launched a million cat videos / Lowen Liu

Nakamoto's prophecy: bitcoin and the revolution in trust / Quinn DuPont

The curse of the awesome button / Will Oremus

The bug no one was responsible for-until everyone was / Josephine Wolff

The Volkswagen emissions scandal: how digital systems can be used to cheat / Lee Vinsel

The code that brought a language online / Syeda Gulshan Ferdous Jana

Telegram: the platform that became "the internet" in Iran / Mahsa Alimardani and Afsaneh Rigot

Encoding gender / Meredith Broussard.