What was going on in 1988?

Beats me. But this page has links to some residual documentation thereof.

• What happened on Humanist? A review of the first six months life of the celebrated online discussion hgroup founded by Willard McCarty. He asked me to write it, honest.
• The Knowledge Warehouse Visit report on a BL funded project to set up a kind of publisher-driven electronic archive
• Information Dimensions User Group Visit report on a fairly typical software indiustry promotional event
• The Cologne Computer Conference Snide report on a massive international conference on computational stuff in history and the social sciences, held in Cologne, at which I was first asked to join the TEI as assistant editor.
• ESRC Seminar on Cataloguing Computer Files held in London: organized by Marcia Taylor, Peter Burnhill et al.
• SGML Users Group Meeting held at BSI, London