[Air-L] History of "accounts"

[Michelle Forelle]

My thanks to everyone both on- and off-list!  I really appreciate the
contributions and am psyched to start reading into them.  If anyone is
interested in the resources I wind up putting together on the topic, email
me off-list and I'll be happy to share :)

Thanks, AoIR!


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Fred Fuchs <fred at firesabre.com> wrote:

>  On 2/7/2014 7:51 PM, Michelle Forelle wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of the
> concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts.
>
>
> "Accounts" in computing began in the days of batch processing and
> timesharing. Here are some related links:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing
> http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html
> http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Time-sharing.html
> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=880740
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk
> http://www.bobbemer.com/TIMESHAR.HTM
>
> Here's a bit more on banking too:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking
>
> http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/banking/swiss-bank-account2.htm
> http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0801059.html
>
> Good luck,
>
> Fred
>
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