[Air-L] History of "accounts"

[Fred Fuchs]

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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