Once upon a time:
	Perl4: oraperl, ingperl, uniperl, fooperl
	Ted Lemon: “Wouldn’t it be nice if” - Sept 29th 1992
	Applications portable between databases
	Skills portable between databases!
	A vision of the future - Talk, talk, talk- the dbperl-interest mailing list
	Buzz Moschetti, Kevin Stock, Kurt Andersen, Ted Lemon
	June 93:
	Kevin and Kurt changed jobs and left the list.
	30 people on the list. I took the lead at that point.
	Jan 1994:
	Dbperl spec is progressing and Perl 5 appears on the horizon
	June 1994:
	Perl 5 alpha releases becoming stable. Almost 200 people on list.
	Prototype pure-perl ‘testbed’ released for experimentation.
	Sept 1994 (Two years and 600 messages - 2MB - later...):
	Renamed to DBI and DBD.
	First release of the DBI (with a pure-perl driver)
	The future is now:
	continuous development
	interface stabilizing and more fully documented