• To: "'Atchley, John'" <John.Atchley@f...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: SV: Tim Bray on "Which Technologies Matter?"
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:40:32 -0600

That would have been my first guess but John 
said it was stable by the 1800s so I was guessing 
that it took a series of systems and market changes 
to drive that out.

len


From: Atchley, John [mailto:John.Atchley@f...]

> Just curious.  Did a technical innovation 
> (eg, automated typesetting, typewriter keyboards) 
> drive the convergence and subsequent stabilization?

<guess quality="dubious" subjectExpertise="zilch">
	My bet would be that it was directly or indirectly driven by the
invention of movable type.
</guess>

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