On January 28 1952 accounting as we know it today was non-existent. The introduction of a computerized brain (as computers were knows as during this time) would change the way accounting and book-keeping was done.
Bank of America and SRI signed a contract for phase 3 of the proposal covering the development, construction, and testing of a pilot model ERMA to provide service to 12 branches
On January 27 1989, a grant opened the door for IBM to donate $2 million in microcomputer technology to be installed at the University of Missouri to replace typewriters in journalism classrooms. Read the article.
Today everyone is a reporter. Reporting news from mobile devices, blog posts, social media sites, RSS feeds and more. Reporters, journalists, writers and student all over the world can appreciate the introduction of computers into journalism. Which eventually led to the development of advance word processing software, picture editing software and more.
On January 26 1997, the New York times published an article about a San Francisco library and its innovative move to add more computers and digital content to the library. read the article
Today digital content, computer stations and computer aided library searches fill the library system as a cooperative method to conduct research and pleasure reading. Libraries are connected to a vast system that allows books not located in the libraries, to be found and borrowed in other libraries. We also have devices such as Kindles, Nooks, Ipad’s which Library’s offer services for, as well as alternative methods of checking out a book via the internet.
The article criticized the San Francisco library’s move but, a just few short years, look how far we’ve come.
Corey Stokes 
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