A personal history of my tech

My statistics textbook has been built on top of hand coded HTML since 2003 and remains online as of this writing. While copying the text over into the Instructure Canvas LMS, I stumbled back across notes in the comments that document some of the tech trajectory underneath the past 18 years of development. Eventually even the comments were no longer being updated. 

Originally Copyleft (c) 2003 http://www.dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
Text originally developed by Dana Lee Ling 26 February 2003 using a
personally owned computer at home and personally owned software.
HTML-Kit Version 1.0 (Build 292)
OS: Windows XP Home Version 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 1)
Components: IE 6.0.2800.1154, COMCTL32 6.0, SHELL32 6.0.2800.0
Memory: 31,896 KB out of 129,008 KB of physical memory available
on an eMachines T1.440 GHz 128 Mb RAM.
Further development in 2007 and 2008 using an Equus Nobilus

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
System Manufacturer Equus Computer Systems, Nobilis X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~3058 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Intel Corp. SA86510A.86A.1031.2006.1025.1722, 10/25/2006
Total Physical Memory 256.00 MB

Moved to Creative Commons -by attribution license 3.0 2007
Handbuilt HTMl 4.01 Strict on the island of Pohnpei
Text development stack includes the following software
xplorer2 1.6.5.3 LITE from http://zabcat.com
http://www.comfsm.fm/~dleeling/tech/image_html_encoder.ods
Notepad++ v4.8.2 http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net
WinSCP 4.0.6 Build 458 http://winscp.net/
Firefox 2.0.0.11 + HTML Validator 0.8.4.0
http://validator.nu
GIMP 2.4.5 http://www.gimp.org
Bluefish 1.0.7 http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
gFTP 2.0.18 http://www.gftp.org
Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 alpha 6
FireFox 3 Beta 4 http://www.mozilla.org
Eye of GNOME 2.22.0 http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog

200807251036 moved from 2002 XHTML+MathML+SVG
to HTML5 doctype

For a long time this draft resided in s81 and a copy
in that location. The shift to s93 was driven by a major
rewrite of the rubrics based on practice. CURVED was nice
conceptually, but a) did not generate enough points for
the draft stages and b) was too time intensive to mark for
those same draft stages, even in the final draft it was
tough. Desiring to keep the old page as a record, I opted
to generate a new page to reflect current practice

Fifth edition work began in 2012, but the forking of the
edition began 25 August 2012 working at home on the new
Ohava quad core Linux desktop with 4 Gb using SciTE 3.0.2
Release 12.04 (precise pangolin)
32-bit Kernel Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae GNOME 3.4.2
Lubuntu Desktop 3.9 GiB RAM
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz x 4
Hard: Western Digital 83627dhg 265.7 GiB
Fifth forked switches chapter two and three
Fifth forked drops projects, adds data exploration
Chapter seven is retained but not covered

Edits during 2012-2013 generated the uptick to 5.1

201312091359 Chapter twelve is expanded with an SVG that
attempts to provide more structure to the process of open
data analysis. Engenders a move to 5.2.
The arrival of a Chromebook 201609 would drive version 6.0
The course is now ODX with PBL flavoring from day one MMs
launch
Sixth edition would shift to using Google Sheets and Google
Slides to support the course. Support for Excel, OpenOffice
LibreOffice was dropped. Gnumeric support had been
deprecated back when Gnumeric walked away from non-Linux
The only looming paradigm shift is the adoption of R
but how to do R in an ESL first contact with statistics?
Circa 2018 Christmas text was made mobile friendly.
2020 text was edited for pandemic online education
202102011018
2021 text was moved piecemeal into Canvas
Production is now using TextMate version 2.0.6 on a Mac.
MacBook Air 13 inch (2017) macOS Big Sur 11.1 8 Gb RAM.
1.8 Ghz Dual core Intel i5

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