1986-1989, Toronto hosts the Centre for Computing in the Humanities

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities is estabilished at the University of Toronto, holds the first joint conference of the ACH and ALLC, and publishes the Humanities Computing Yearbooks, the first work of its scale to track software and corpus development, academic publication, and other activity in the field. Text  Analysis Computing Tools is a leading example of what the humanities computing community could achieve and is later published by the MLA.

ACH: Association for Computers and the Humanities;
ALLC: Associacion for Literary and Linguistic Computing;
MLA: convention.