Jeffery Kegler's Parsing: a timeline (via) is what it says on
the title; it's an (opinionated) timeline of various developments
in computer language parsing. There are a number of fascinating
parts to it and many bits of history that I hadn't known and I'm
glad to have read about. Among other things, this timeline discusses
all of the things that aren't actually really solved problems in
parsing, which is informative all by itself.
(I've been exposed to various aspects of parsing and it's a long
standing interest of mine, but I don't think I've ever seen the
history of the field laid out like this. I had no idea that so
many things were relatively late developments, or of all of the
twists and turns involved in the path to LALR parsers.)