The SGML History Niche

Welcome to the SGML History Niche. It contains some reliable papers on the early history of SGML, and its precursor, IBM's Generalized Markup Language, GML.

At present, there are these papers:

• The Roots of SGML -- A Personal Recollection
• SGML: The Reason Why and the First Published Hint (1970)
• A Generalized Approach to Document Markup (1981)
• A Brief History of the Development of SGML
• A Brief History of the Development of SMDL and HyTime

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