[clug] [OT] Open Source model needed for Academic Publishing?

[steve jenkin]

Mike Carden wrote on 1/09/11 2:36 PM:

> 
> Do you mean to say that computer science existed more than 14 years
> ago? Pffft. That can't be right.
> 

You're right, NOTHING important happened in CS before 1996 :-)

Partial & prejudiced list:
[If others indulge, why don't we fork the subject line]

1941-1949: First Generation general-purpose computers.
Ozstralia has "The Last of the First", CSIRAC, due to its slow &
underwhelming bureaucracy. It was put in a wharehouse and forgotten
about, accidentally preserving a major historical item :-)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSIRAC>

1950-1951: First Commercial Computers sold & used
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)>	claims 1st Application
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_I>		claims 1st hardware

1960-1964: IBM 360 created. World's First multi-machine Architecture.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360>

1961-1963: Ivan Sutherland writes "Sketchpad" for his PhD thesis
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad>

1964-1968: Doug Englebart and SRI develop mouse, hypertext,
collaboration, etc at "Augmentation Research Centre"
<http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmentation_Research_Center>

1968/9: Software Engineering created/defined at/with NATO conferences
<http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/>

1962-1969: ARPAnet created
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET>

1962-2010: Donald Knuth writes "The Art of Computer Programming"
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming>
1977-1985: Knuth diverges to write "Tex" in which to publish his books.

1969-1974: Unix @ Bell Labs by Ken, Dennis and the CSRG (mailstop/Dept 1127)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix>

1973-1976: Bob Metcalfe invents Ethernet
<http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa111598.htm>

1975: Fred Brooks, hardware then Software Project Director,
 writes it up as "The Mythical Man Month"
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month>

1986: FB Reprises himself: "No Silver Bullet"
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet>

1989-1991: Tim Berners-Lee & CERN invent HTTP & HTML
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web>


There was some other noise during this time:
 - FORTRAN & COBOL
 - SQL and the calculus of Relational Databases
 - Hard Disks, Floppy Disks, Flash memory
 - micro-computers and PC's
 - PARC invented more things, like Object-Oriented, Windowing/GUI's,
   remote API's, ...
 - Linus and Tridge started hacking :-)


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