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We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002) web.mit.edu 1164 peak points 58 submissions · 51 people · 18.4 years Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) norvig.com 586 peak points 32 submissions · 32 people · 18.6 years Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) www.w3.org 387 peak points 25 submissions · 22 people · 18.3 years Choose Boring Technology (2015) mcfunley.com 1357 peak points 46 submissions · 42 people · 11.5 years

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