Timeline

Here are some important dates in eighteenth century masquerade and in late twentieth century web disguise.

 

Eighteenth Century Masquerade	Web disguise
1673 Dryden, John. Marriage a la Mode	1957 development of the ARPAnet
1677 Behn, Aphra.The Rover	1972 first email program created by Ray Tomlinson
1741 Richardson, Samuel. Pamela Part II	1986 invention of the word "nettiquette"
1724 Defoe, Daniel. Roxana	1989 IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
1752 Lennox, Charlotte Ramsey. The Female Quixote (Sir George masquerades as a romantic prince)	1993 "cybersex"
1778 Burney, Frances. Evelina (scenes of mayhem in various London pleasure parks)	1995, April "chat room" referring to the net (1993 referring to AOL)
1791 Inchbald, Elizabeth. A Simple Story
1798 Hanway, Mary Ann. Eleanor, or, The World as it is
1801 Edgeworth, Maria. Belinda

On-line sources include: a select timeline of eighteenth century British literature

A timeline of major events in eighteenth century Britain

Keith Lynch's timeline of internet terminology usage

[This is the page that introduces the user to the topic timeline. The main timeline will consist of material that you enter in the Transcription project's Filemaker Pro database through its Web interface, a special version of which has been set up for this topic here. Once you have entered your material, the database will automatically create Web-viewable chronologies based on search criteria entered by the user (or pre-set searches you provide). In addition to sending the user to the database, however, you can use the present page to present a selective timeline. For an example of what might be done in this space with a selective timeline, see Weaving Webs Timeline

The following is a sample outline of the content that might be put on this page introducing your timeline, though you can be more creative and artistic. You might begin, for example, with a quote about the time in which your topic is set.

1. Highlights from the timeline, perhaps intermixed with quotations or pictures or links to works.

2. A variant of the following paragraph:

"Go to the full timeline database for this project, which allows for interactive browsing and searching and is paired with a related database of annotated links to online resources."]