#greenchain #acsanaheim #quixotechem #blueobelisk
I am leading off today’s ACS program on the Internet and Social Networking http://abstracts.acs.org/chem/241nm/program/divisionindex.php?act=presentations&val=Internet+and+Chemistry:+Social+Networking&ses=Internet+and+Chemistry:+Social+Networking&prog=54108 . I intend to talk about our social experiment last year at Science Online (the “greenchain reaction”) but this is also a wonderful opportunity to create a collective memory of the last ?20 years. Memory fades (at least mine) and the Internet record decays with ruthless and terrifying speed. So here’s the idea (only made possible because we have good wifi in the centre):
We create an Etherpad (http://okfnpad.org/internetChemistry ) of the timeline of the last 20 years (1990-) and populate it communally from within the real-life audience and also wider (anyone who sees this mail or related tweets). If you have never used an Etherpad before it’s trivial. Just enter your name or alias, and start typing. I am going to seed it with some timepoints which I think are critical, and here’s the current list. I will almost certainly get dates wrong and miss people. So here’s my first pass… current pad scraped…
History of Chemistry on the Internet 1990-
Emphasis on Social networks or seminal technologies (not organizational presence)
Please enter events or technologies or resources that are seminal to the development of social networks either directly (e.g. a wiki) or indirectly (e.g. Rasmol). Commercial entities are welcomed if they contribute to the history (e.g. Chemweb) but please avoid treating this as an opportunity for product placement – e.g. “AcmeChem put its catalog online”
Many of the dates are certainly wrong – please correct them!
1990
1991
HTML TB-L
1992
BioMOO
1993
Kinemage?
Rasmol
Mosaic
1994
WWW1 at Geneva demos of Rasmol, etc.
Chemical MIME
Chemical Markup Language
1995
Chime?
Hyperactive molecules (HSR et al)
Principles of Protein Structure Internet Course
1996
ECTOC-1/2/3
Structure Based Drug Design Course
biomednet?
1997
Chemweb
1998
Chemweb launch of CML
1999
2000
2001
First datument (MW,HSR, PMR in RSC)
2002
2003
2004
Internet Journal Chemistry
ZINC?
2005
Blue Obelisk
2006
2007
Chemistry in Second life
2008
Chemspider
2009
2010
Green Chain Reaction
Quixote
2011
ACS Internet meeting
Please visit the pad and contribute. Before, during and after the meeting. It’s not meant to be PMR-centric.
Peter Sefton has a great tool for formatting the pad – it will look pretty after that and is a useful static snapshot