1993 — The beginning
- Early xBase tooling and teaching materials
- First experiments with inspectable file formats
2000s — Practical iteration
- Field-tested workflows
- Refinement of indexing and memo handling concepts
2010s — Language & tooling
- Scripting approaches aimed at education and repeatable data work
- CLI-first utilities for inspection and maintenance
2025 — Documented AI-assisted development
- July 21: earliest probable AI-assisted DotTalk modernization activity,
inferred from eight coordinated
*_modernsource artifacts produced in a 44-second batch. The artifacts do not identify an AI model. - August 2: earliest direct preserved project-specific AI material, followed minutes later by the earliest explicitly Gemini-attributed project record.
- December 13: a preserved DotTalk++ archive and message provide later corroboration of the project identity and direction.
- Read the complete evidence record.
2026 — Canonical unification
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DBF_64 and FPT64 formalized
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Documentation, licensing, curriculum, and tooling consolidated under a single platform
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SelfDoc and the Master Documentation Organizer become part of the system architecture: documentation, proof, and artifact-protection lanes created to keep AI-assisted work reviewable and prevent damage to source, HELP data, generated manuals, diagrams, and staged publication artifacts.
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The public project-history convention records August 2, 2025 as the earliest directly documented AI-assisted DotTalk date while preserving July 21 as probable.