{"id":2,"date":"2004-07-04T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/07\/04\/2\/"},"modified":"2014-03-15T10:58:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T18:58:47","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/07\/04\/2\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/paul\/\">Paul McJones<\/a>.  I am using this weblog to discuss historic computer software and hardware among other topics.  For several months I&#8217;ve been studying the early history of Fortran, and trying to track down the source code for the original Fortran compiler.  Although I just set up this weblog recently (June-July 2004), I&#8217;ve created back-dated entries to document my quest in chronological order, starting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2003\/11\/19\/11\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I welcome suggestions for additional topics, and also would like to invite others to contribute articles on the history of early programming languages, operating systems, database management systems, and applications.<\/p>\n<p>If you like this web log, you might be interested in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/System_R\/\">System R website<\/a> documenting the history of the System R relational database research project, which gave birth to the SQL query language.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Paul McJones\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul McJones (photo by Kelly Castro)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Paul McJones. I am using this weblog to discuss historic computer software and hardware among other topics. For several months I&#8217;ve been studying the early history of Fortran, and trying to track down the source code for the original Fortran compiler. Although I just set up this weblog recently (June-July 2004), I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/07\/04\/2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introduction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}