authorship

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Essays

the comment is a colophon

essay drafting 2026-08-16 · software-history, easter-eggs, authorship, credit-misattribution, colophon

Everything else

Two uncredited programmers, sixty years apart, signed their work the same way software historians didn't connect — and Paul Allen independently called one of them 'a scribe from the Middle Ages'

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-16 · software-history, easter-eggs, authorship, colophon, diplomatics
Warren Robinett hid his name inside a secret room of Atari's Adventure (1979) as an uncredited-designer's signature

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-16 · software-history, easter-eggs, atari, warren-robinett, authorship
William Weiher's 1967–68 TOPS-10 'make love not war' hack is the earliest documented software easter egg

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-16 · software-history, easter-eggs, tops-10, stanford-ai-lab, william-weiher