Brutkey

Marcin Wichary
@mwichary@mastodon.online

They really are killing me.

Marcin Wichary
@mwichary@mastodon.online

Fired some interlibrary requests. Wish me luck!

Marcin Wichary
@mwichary@mastodon.online

Is this going to go anywhere? Unclear. But I like this part.

A list of various documents and papers about markup languages collected in a database, alongside their word count
Marcin Wichary
@mwichary@mastodon.online

I like scanning and putting up interlibrary stuff on Internet Archive.

This is the first one I got. Not sure yet if it’s going to help with the HTML bracket investigation, but maybe it’ll help someone else! https://archive.org/details/gca-standard-101-1983

Marcin Wichary
@mwichary@mastodon.online

Believe it or not, I’m still figuring out where HTML got its angle brackets.

But despite grabbing a lot of interlibrary items, I am not sure I’m getting any closer. I still have some ideas, but one involves going to a museum in Maine, which might take a while.

However, good news (for someone?): There are now over 40 papers and books I scanned that deal with history of markup. Enjoy!

https://archive.org/details/wicharytypewriter?tab=collection&query=subject%3A%22markup%22