Show HN: A narrative walk through AI history, paper by paper (1936–2025)
A new resource offers a narrative journey through the history of artificial intelligence from 1936 to 2025. It presents 66 chapters across eight eras, summarizing key papers and moments in a straightforward manner. This compilation aims to make AI's evolution accessible to both newcomers and seasoned professionals alike.
- ▪The resource includes 66 chapters spanning eight eras of AI history.
- ▪Each chapter provides a plain-language summary of significant papers and theories.
- ▪Readers can expect to spend about 12-15 hours to complete the entire narrative.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Era · 1936 → 2025 | 66 chapters across 8 eras | License · MIT The internet is drowning in writing about AI — its history, its breakthroughs, the technical leaps that brought us here. And yet, somewhere in all of that, a gap remains. A gap where a curious reader — a teenager just discovering the field, or a seasoned engineer who never had time to look back — can sit down and read the whole thing like a story. One place where the pieces connect. Not a link to a paper buried in a journal. Not a few scattered lines on a Wikipedia page. Not a random collection of names and dates. A deliberate, sequential walk through the moments that mattered — the ones where one idea cracked open the door for the next.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.