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What Was Focused For Computers
Early digital history in the 1960s and 70s focused on quantitative analyses, primarily of demographic data. The 1960s and 70s focused on using computers to conduct quantitative analyses, primarily of demographic and social history data - censuses, election returns, city directories, and other tabular or countable data. -
History
By the late 1970s younger historians turned to cultural studies, but the outpouring of quantitive studies by established scholars continued. Since then, quantitative history and cliometrics have been used primarily by historically-minded economists and political scientists. -
The First Personal Computer
In the 1980s the proliferation of the first personal computers, including the IBM PS/1 and PS2 and the Macintosh. The MIDI and CD-ROM were also developed during this decade. -
Optical Disk Pilot Project
In 1982, the Library of Congress embarked on its Optical Disk Pilot Project, which placed text and images from its collection on to laserdiscs and CD-ROMs. The library started offering online exhibits -
Roy Rosenzweig, Steve Brier and Josh Brown
In 1993, Roy Rosenzweig, along with Steve Brier and Josh Brown, produced their award-winning CD-ROM Who Built America? From the Centennial Exposition of 1876 to the Great War of 1914, designed for Apple, Inc. that integrated images, text, film and sound clips, displayed in a visual interface that supported a text narrative. -
Founded the Center for History and New Media
Rosenzweig, who died October 11, 2007,[8] founded the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University in 1994. -
William G. Thomas III joined Ayers on the Valley Project
. In 1996, William G. Thomas III joined Ayers on the Valley Project. Together, they produced an online article entitled "The Differences Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities," which also appeared in the American Historical Review in 2003.[6] A CD-ROM also accompanied the Valley Project, published by W. W. Norton and Company in 2000. -
Founded the Virginia Center for Digital History
In 1997, Ayers and Thomas used the term "digital history" when they proposed and founded the Virginia Center for Digital History (VCDH) at the University of Virginia, the earliest center devoted exclusively to history. -
Emory University launched Southern Spaces
In 2004, Emory University launched Southern Spaces, a "peer-reviewed Internet journal and scholarly forum" examining the history of the South. -
Important Events in Digital History in 2010
In 2010 Google founded Google X (now named "X") in January 2010. On February 20, 2010, the Personal Computer Museum demonstrated old computers were still useful after showing a Commodore VIC-20 capable of viewing and making posts to Twitter.
