uber nerdy stuff from my ongoing research: (which has to do with
   humanity and how we think) An unsung hero from before I was
   born: The guy that came up with "many to many" relationships in
   databases, basically the GOTO for databases.* While modern
   programming/database style hates many-to-many and GOTO
   statements, this "on demand" way of thinking that can handle
   disorganized 'anythings' is exactly the kind of direction
   computers and information services need to go, and have been
   going.*** So if I had a hat, my hat's off to [1]#CharlesBachman
   who deserves a Hashtag, for without him, none of us would even
   be able to conceive of a hashtag even existing. Without him,
   it's likely everything would be super-organized and
   hierarchical, which is the direction things had been going back
   in that day. That's fine and all, but there's needs to be a way
   to "break out" of the structure otherwise no innovations will
   ever occur. Via:
   [2]http://databasemanagement.wikia.com/wiki/Network_Database_Model
   The Network Database Model was invented by Charles Bachman in
   1969 to enhance the existing hierarchical database model. He
   created this model to increase the flexibility and make it less
   difficult to understand. To make this change Bachman developed
   the Network Database Model to allow multiple records to be
   linked to the same owner file creating a many-to-many
   relationship rather than a one-to-many. These many-to-many
   relationships were formed because one owner can linked to many
   member files and vice versa. To make the process faster Bachman
   also created these relationships to provide a relation between
   records using direct pointers, which is the fastest method of
   traversing (travel across) a network database." Interesting that
   what's new is old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_model
   Relational databases have been all the rage for the past 35
   years but starting a few years ago, Google, Apache and all the
   big whigs have been resurrecting an old idea and calling it new.
   I love it :P* "Look guys, it's NEW!" - no no, Google, etc - it's
   not new.

References

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   1. https://plus.google.com/s/%23CharlesBachman
   2. http://databasemanagement.wikia.com/wiki/Network_Database_Model