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Beginnings

Typography vs. Generic Coding movement

• "Marking up", what does it mean?
• Generalized markup vs. formatting markup (like RTF)
• William Tunnicliffe of the GCA credited with starting it all in September, 1967
• Goldfarb's SGML History Niche

1969: GML - Generalized Markup Language

IBM's integrated law office systems:

• Charles Goldfarb
• Edward Mosher
• Raymond Lorie

1974-1986: SGML

• ISO standard in 1986: ISO-8879

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