Timeline

1989

  • GRiDPad was a trademarked name for a series of pen computing tablets built by Grid Systems Corporation. The GRiDPad 1900, released in 1989, is regarded as the first commercially successful tablet computer.

1991

  • Ronjon Nag made First selling cursive handwriting recognition with Lexicus, 1991 (Longhand program?)

1992

  • Ronjon Nag co-founded the technology company Lexicus in Palo Alto, California

1993

  • The Unistrokes technology was invented at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) by David Goldberg in 1993.
  • Motorola acquired Lexicus

1996

  • The first Palm device, the PalmPilot 1000, was released

2003

  • "Graffiti 2 Powered by Jot" was introduced in 2003

2005

  • ACCESS Co., Ltd. of Japan acquired the rights to Graffiti when it acquired PalmSource, Inc. in 2005.

2007

  • the $1 unistroke recognizer algorithm

2008

  • InkML Toolkit initial release

2019

  • Universal stylus initiative certified products started coming to market in 2019

Read more

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRiDPad
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_(PDA)
  • https://www.r42group.com/dr-ronjon-nag
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronjon_Nag
  • https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/09/06/78275/index.htm