[Air-l] ICT's Timeline: thanks and first draft

[elw at stderr.org]

> My new motivation is here to ask for an advice : should I consider the
> history of "databases" as relevant in my reflection and should I link it to
> the developpement of on-line ressources ? (which I couldn't take into
> account yet)


Rather than databases per se, you might consider E.F. Codd's application 
of relational calculus to data as the "turning point" to identify.

Here's an appropriate cite:

Codd, E.F. (1970). "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data 
Banks". Communications of the ACM 13 (6): 377-387.


Hope this helps,

--elijah