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0 pointshumanistbot2y ago0 comments

Alan Turing's 1950 article in Mind proposing the Turing Test (Computing Machinery and Intelligence)

IRS Tax Form 1040

The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The US Constitution and Declaration of Independence

The Treaty of Versailles

The Paris Treaty

The Kyoto Protocol

The Bible, King James Version

Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech

Martin Luther's 95 Theses

The Communist Manifesto

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reb2y ago

The Arnell Group’s Pepsi Rebrand doc

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

cschmidt2y ago

Finally replaced this week!

https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_log...

cbm-vic-202y ago

Where are the perimeter oscillations???

"The Pepsi DNA finds its origin in the dynamic of perimeter oscillations. This new identity manifests itself in an authentic geometry that is to become proprietary to the Pepsi culture."

bombcar2y ago

Apple and Pepsi don’t mix well ;)

unixhero2y ago

This is a glorious one

yreg2y ago

None of those are famous PDFs.

humanistbotOP2y ago

OK fine, except for IRS Tax Form 1040. Each year's form is probably the most intentionally distributed PDF on the planet (so excluding PDFs bundled with software like this story). I don't think there is a country larger than the US that requires its citizens (or their tax agents/software) to download a form and submit it each year.

capableweb2y ago

> Each year's form is probably the most intentionally distributed PDF on the planet

In the US*. The Bitcoin paper has surely been distributed far wider than any US-specific tax forms.

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sunshinerag2y ago

>> ... on the planet Bzzz ... Reminder US is not the only country on this planet. IRS can keep its arms inside.

Gordonjcp2y ago

So, something that a small minority of the planet's population would have even heard of?

pjmlp2y ago

Neither is the bitcoin one, other than for a specific bubble.

lisp-pornstar2y ago

Note that none of these documents originated as pdfs. Digitalization happened after their creation.

AlecSchueler2y ago

Treaty of Lisbon?

lisp-pornstar2y ago

Wasn't it signed by hand ? (Maybe that's too "Euro" for apple anyway...)

TechBro86152y ago

The Lyrics of the U2 Discography

xxpor2y ago

The shitstorm using the communist manifesto would cause would be glorious.

seanp2k22y ago

Also likely a "career-limiting move" at AAPL

viraptor2y ago

There's also the Jolly Roger's Cookbook.

nirav722y ago

Ahh..one of the most dowloaded text files on every BBS I joined in the early 1990s.

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0 pointshumanistbot2y ago0 comments

Alan Turing's 1950 article in Mind proposing the Turing Test (Computing Machinery and Intelligence)

IRS Tax Form 1040

The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The US Constitution and Declaration of Independence

The Treaty of Versailles

The Paris Treaty

The Kyoto Protocol

The Bible, King James Version

Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech

Martin Luther's 95 Theses

The Communist Manifesto

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reb2y ago

The Arnell Group’s Pepsi Rebrand doc

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

cschmidt2y ago

Finally replaced this week!

https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_log...

cbm-vic-202y ago

Where are the perimeter oscillations???

"The Pepsi DNA finds its origin in the dynamic of perimeter oscillations. This new identity manifests itself in an authentic geometry that is to become proprietary to the Pepsi culture."

bombcar2y ago

Apple and Pepsi don’t mix well ;)

unixhero2y ago

This is a glorious one

yreg2y ago

None of those are famous PDFs.

humanistbotOP2y ago

capableweb2y ago

> Each year's form is probably the most intentionally distributed PDF on the planet

In the US*. The Bitcoin paper has surely been distributed far wider than any US-specific tax forms.

1 more reply

sunshinerag2y ago

>> ... on the planet Bzzz ... Reminder US is not the only country on this planet. IRS can keep its arms inside.

Gordonjcp2y ago

So, something that a small minority of the planet's population would have even heard of?

pjmlp2y ago

Neither is the bitcoin one, other than for a specific bubble.

lisp-pornstar2y ago

Note that none of these documents originated as pdfs. Digitalization happened after their creation.

AlecSchueler2y ago

Treaty of Lisbon?

lisp-pornstar2y ago

Wasn't it signed by hand ? (Maybe that's too "Euro" for apple anyway...)

TechBro86152y ago

The Lyrics of the U2 Discography

xxpor2y ago

The shitstorm using the communist manifesto would cause would be glorious.

seanp2k22y ago

Also likely a "career-limiting move" at AAPL

viraptor2y ago

There's also the Jolly Roger's Cookbook.

nirav722y ago

Ahh..one of the most dowloaded text files on every BBS I joined in the early 1990s.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse