An historical review of lepton proton scattering

In this talk I will try to review some of the early experiments in the field of electron-proton scattering, concentrating mostly on the inelastic scattering experiments at SLAC. Ordinarily, those experiments would be covered in the first five or ten minutes of the talks by Professor Scuilli and Drell, but this is a special year, and I will feel free to reminisce about the early days in a somewhat personal way