Time Line

• 367 -- Festal Epistle of St Athanasius delivered
• 868 -- The Diamond Sutra printed
• 900 -- The Lindisfarne Gospels illuminated (circa)
• 1440 -- The Gutenberg Bible published
• 1590 -- Spenser's The Faerie Queene published
• 1603 -- Klesheim's Album Amicorum authoring begins
• 1611 -- King James Version of the Holy Bible published
• 1740 -- Richardson's Pamela published
• 1760 -- Sterne's Tristram Shandy published
• 1787 -- Original Letters from the Archives of the Paston Family, the first English facsimile book published
• 1790 -- Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell illuminated
• 1854 -- Dickens' Hard Times published
• 1872 -- Sholes and Densmore patent the QWERTY keyboard typewriter
• 1892 -- Kelmscott Press edition of Morris' News From Nowhere
• 1922 -- Eliot's "The Waste Land" published
• 1925 -- Freud's "A Note Upon The Mystic Writing Pad" published
• 1939 -- Joyce's Finnegans Wake published
• 1945 -- Bush's "As We May Think" published
• 1959 -- Robbe-Grillet's Dans le labyrinthe published
• 1962 -- Nabokov's Pale Fire published
• 1963 -- Saporta's Composition #1 published
• 1963 -- Engelbart publishes "A Conceptual Framework"
• 1965 -- Nelson coins the term "hypertext"
• 1966 -- Cortázar's Hopscotch published
• 1967 -- Barth's "Literature of Exhaustion" published
• 1968 -- Engelbart implements NLS and invents the mouse
• 1968 -- HES developed by Nelson and van Dam at Brown U
• 1969 -- FRESS developed at Brown U
• 1970 -- Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition published
• 1972 -- ZOG development begins at Carnegie Mellon
• 1975 -- The Altair, the first personal computer, introduced
• 1977 -- Apple II released
• 1981 -- KMS development begins at Knowledge Systems
• 1981 -- Nelson's Literary Machines published
• 1981 -- Introduction of the IBM PC
• 1982 -- ZOG installed on USS Carl Vinson
• 1982 -- Guide development begins at U of Kent
• 1983 -- TIES development begins at U of Maryland
• 1983 -- Trigg completes the first hypertext PhD at U of Maryland
• 1984 -- Guide implemented commercially by Office Workstations
• 1984 -- Notecards development begins at Xerox PARC
• 1985 -- Intermedia development begins at Brown U
• 1986 -- Writing Environment development begins at U of N. Carolina
• 1986 -- Guide released for the Apple
• 1986 -- Release of the first 80386 computer, the Compaq Deskpro
• 1987 -- HyperCard released
• 1987 -- Conklin's "Hypertext: An Introduction and Survey" published
• 1987 -- Guide for MS-Windows released
• 1988 -- Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars published
• 1989 -- Schneiderman and Kearsley's Hypertext Hands-On! becomes the first book/hypertext package
• 1989 -- IBM's LinkWay released
• 1989 -- IRIS Intermedia 3.0 released commercially
• 1989 -- Joyce's Afternoon published
• 1991 -- Sony's Data Discman released
• 1991 -- Franklin Electronic Bible introduced
• 1993 -- The Electronic Labyrinth written
• 1995 -- The Electronic Labyrinth Web version published