New Developments: Mid-1980s to Early 1990s

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  • IBM

    Developed Orignial IBM PC architecture and began to dominate the PC world.

  • Apple

    Apple Started to compete with IBM. Using its user interface as a selling point.

  • Personal Computer and E-Mail

    The Devolpement of Persal Computers and E-mail started to come forward.

  • E-Mail

    Sending Email more rapidly.

  • ALLC Conference

    In Nice. Electronic mail addressed were exchanged avidly. New form of electronic conversation was founded.

  • TEI

    Text Encoding Initiative. Founded back in 1986 when they first wanted to formalize text encoding language. Not initially called that. Name came about it 2001

  • Humanities discussion

    Created a list of topics for use with Digital Humanities. Patric Conner was the founder of this list

  • Standard Generalize Markup language

    Published by ISO. Could handle many different types of text. Could deal with metadata and data. Also could represent complex documents.

  • Created "Electric Seminar"

    Created a "web site" that was called the humanist. Created by Willard McCarty. First message was sent on this date.

  • First Humanities Computing Yearbook

    Editted by Lancashire, McCarty.

  • Second Humanities Computer yearbook

    Again by Lancashire and McCarty

  • Beowulf

    First program to use Hypertext. Presented text to user with links to the modern english verision. First version of the Perseus Project. Presented in HyperCard

  • ACH/ALLC conference

    Conference between computational linquist and computational humanities. Little communication of done between parties and the computational humanities did not pull many things away from the meeting.

  • Mosaic

    First Graphical web browser was released. Use of the internet started to become for vital to academic activity.