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

[Jim Croft]

Unless you are a botanist - important stuff started happening in 1753 - and
hasn't stopped! :(

jim

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:42 PM, steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au>wrote:

> 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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