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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.