[ih] Fwd: History of "accounts"

[Joly MacFie]

Anyone here want to give Michele further pointers?

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Fred Fuchs <fred at firesabre.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Air-L] History of "accounts"
To: Michelle Forelle <mcforelle at gmail.com>, AoIR-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>


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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