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The History of Humanities Computing

By tylerb1
  • In 1949 Father Roberto Busa began to make an index verborum about 11 million words.

    In 1949 Father Roberto Busa began to make an index verborum about 11 million words.

  • 1970 Symposium in Cambridge

    The focal point computing in humanities.

  • Development of the Association for the Literary and Linguistic

    Every year they would produce up to 3 bulletins for every other association to follow.
  • Apple Macintosh

    Apple Macintosh

    1. graphical user interface
    2. program to build hypertexts easily
    3. write computer programs easily

  • The Association for Computers

    This association had developed out of the International Conference of Computing.
  • IBM PCs

    IBM PCs

  • Beowulf Workstation

    Created by Patrick Conner Patrick Conner
  • Electronic Mail

    Electronic Mail

    Facilities for sending and recieving electronic mail across international boundaries
    Provided by most academic computing services

  • The Journal

    They had a journal called the the Literary and Linguistic computing

  • Ansaxnet

    Patrick Conner
  • ListServ and Humanist

    ListServ and Humanist

    First message was sent out
    Willard McCarty
  • Humanities Computing Yearbook

    Humanities Computing Yearbook

    First edited by Ian Lancashire and Willard McCarty
  • First Web Browser

    First Web Browser

    The first Web browser, Mosaic, is created.
  • First Search Engine

    First Search Engine

    Open Text SGML
  • First Archive

    First Archive

    The Orlando Project creates an archive of Women's Writing. Short biographies, histories, and world events are included.
  • Multimedia

    Multimedia

    Multimedia files can be hyperlinked with words.