The history of our discipline is important, not only to the academic scholars who research and compile it, but to the practitioners who create it. As the research and publications of JTWC Editorial Editor, Elizabeth Tebeaux, reveal, ours is an ancient discipline, extending at least back into the late Middle Ages, and undoubtedly much beyond that if we take into account such things as Roman civil documents, Greek political treatises, even Sumerian cuneiform tablets that account for the day-to-day life in the world's first city state. Yet, often, relatively recent technical communication history eludes us. Early in the life of this Journal, founding editor Jay R. Gould incorporated a regular feature that he called "Meet the Professionals." This was a collection of short biographies of the men-and women-who developed modern technical communication as an enterprise and a discipline during and following World War Ⅱ. One can learn a great deal about early modern technical communication simply by going online (www.baywood.com) and exploring these segments during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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机译：我们学科的历史不仅对研究和编写该学科的学者很重要，而且对创建该学科的实践者也很重要。正如JTWC编辑编辑Elizabeth Tebeaux的研究和出版物所揭示的那样，我们的学科是一门古老的学科，至少可以追溯到中世纪晚期，而且如果我们考虑到罗马民用文献，希腊政治等方面，无疑是远远超出这一学科的学科。论文，甚至是苏美尔楔形文字片，都占了世界上第一个城市州的日常生活。但是，相对而言，相对较新的技术交流历史常常使我们难以理解。在《华尔街日报》的早期，创始编辑杰伊·古尔德（Jay R. Gould）加入了一项常规功能，他称之为“与专业人士会面”。这是一本关于男性和女性的简短传记的集合，他们在第二次世界大战期间和之后发展了现代技术交流，并将其作为一种企业和一门学科发展起来。只需在线（www.baywood.com）并在1970年代末和1980年代初探索这些领域，就可以学到很多有关早期现代技术交流的知识。
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