A History of Bible Software
Great post over at W. Hall Harris' Blog (Net Bible) talking aobut the history of Bible software. Its interesting that its not changed much from its search and retreive nature (one would think that the software would have picked up some new tricks along the way). Here's a snippet:
...It did not take long after computers became "personal" (early 1980s) for people to start using them for Bible study. The initial advantage computers had over printed Bible study tools and materials was speed...they could search large amounts of text relatively quickly. So the first Bible programs were little more than basic electronic concordances, useful for finding where certain words were located (at first in the King James Bible, then other translations were added). Later as computers improved in their ability to handle foreign language fonts, the original Hebrew (OT) and Greek (NT) texts of the Bible were added...Read the rest at W. Hall Harris' Blog (Net Bible).
posted by Antoine @ 2/07/2008 06:30:00 AM
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What? No love for WORDsearch in that article? Bah humbug!
lj.
The article is a first in a series of a several. I wouldn't be surprised to see WS be covered at some point, along with some others. But I doubt that every bit of software will be mentioned. As is the case in most history accounts, only those notable items that are of relevance to the point the author is trying to make get mentioned, not every point - else we'd never move on past talking about hisory ;)
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