Farewell to John Warnock, an internet pioneer whose invention actually made the world better::In June 1969, John E. Warnock achieved a milestone of sorts at the University of Utah by producing the shortest Ph.D. dissertation in the university’s history.
Tldr He wrote a paper that outlined a portable document format: the PDF.
Prett incredible. Imagine having that on your resume
And then submitting that resume as a 10pt Arial Word doc