[ih] Fwd: History of "accounts"

[Miles Fidelman]

I got curious, and a little googling turned up this:
http://www.aucegypt.edu/fac/Profiles/Documents/Science%20paper,%20Shawki%20Farag.pdf 
(the history of accounting in Egypt, back to Biblical times)

Which noted, among other things, accounting as regards tax collection.

Given the certainty of "death and taxes" - perhaps the notion of an 
"account" stems to just about the same time as the concept of "tax" :-)

Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Probably goes back at least as far as the Egyptians - who invented 
> lots of things (e.g., surveying) to "account" (root is the same as 
> "count") to keep track of fields and grain stores across annual 
> floodings of the Nile.  And then there's the whole history of trade 
> and credit in its various forms, hence the term "on account."
>
> I expect that if one goes back far enough, one will find that this is 
> a case of parallel invention across multiple cultures, during 
> pre-historical periods.
>
> Joly MacFie wrote:
>> Anyone here want to give Michele further pointers?
>>
>> j
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *Fred Fuchs* <fred at firesabre.com <mailto: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 
>> <mailto:mcforelle at gmail.com>>, AoIR-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org 
>> <mailto:air-l at listserv.aoir.org>>
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>> 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://www.princeton.edu/%7Eachaney/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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