CodeHistory Journal:
Research on Programming History.

Seven pioneers helped evolve peer-to-peer networking from Napster and Gnutella to Freenet, BitTorrent, and Kademlia.

Seven researchers helped define the limits and practical protocols for reaching agreement across unreliable and even malicious distributed machines.

Seven researchers helped establish the clocks, fault models, replication methods, process groups, and network principles behind dependable distributed systems.

Seven package-system pioneers helped transform software reuse through dpkg, CPAN, npm, RubyGems, pip, and isolated language environments.

Seven language creators helped make text processing, automation, web programming, embedding, and rapid development dramatically more accessible.

Seven toolmakers illuminate the evolution from Make and Jam to Ant, Maven, Gradle, language toolchains, and cross-platform build automation.

Seven innovators helped integrate editing, compiling, debugging, visual design, refactoring, and live programming into modern developer environments.

Seven contributors helped turn Git from a Linux-kernel emergency tool into the dominant distributed version-control system.

Seven developers helped evolve source control from per-file revision systems to CVS, BitKeeper, Git, and Mercurial.

Seven organizers, technologists, and entrepreneurs helped turn collaborative source development into the globally recognized open-source movement.

Seven kernel developers and maintainers helped turn Linux from a small Unix-like kernel into a continuously evolving global infrastructure platform.

Seven Berkeley contributors helped turn Unix into a networked research platform whose code and ideas spread through open Unix systems.