Timeline work Research required

History. Source. Archive.

GoldED history needs dates, forks, releases, and receipts.

This page is intentionally a timeline stub. The structure is here. The facts still need to be researched and pinned down properly instead of being improvised from memory haze.

Signal

From inception to now.

Research-heavy page by design.

No fake certainty.

Timeline skeleton

Early 1990s

Obvious anchor

GoldED appears in the DOS and FTN era

This is the first placeholder that should become a dated milestone once the exact release year and earliest surviving references are pinned down properly.

1990s to 2000s

Needs receipts

Cross-platform years and wider adoption

Use this slot for the years where GoldED spread, matured, and picked up the habits, docs, and configuration culture people still remember.

Open-source release

Year needed

GoldED3 source is released into public daylight

The exact release date, surrounding context, and surviving source references belong here once they have been verified from the actual materials.

Modern preservation phase

Recent era

macOS port and living preservation work

This section should trace the point where the story stops being purely historical and becomes active software maintenance again.

Current line

In progress

Laravel-based reinterpretation begins

Place the greenfield port here as the newest branch in the family tree, with a short explanation of what it keeps and what it intentionally rethinks.

Research inputs

  • Release notes and source history
  • `goldware.dk` snapshots
  • Surviving docs and README material
  • Fork lineage, including GoldED+

Placeholder rules

Use broad periods where the era is obvious.

Do not fake exact years until the sources are in hand.

Replace each placeholder block with cited milestones as the research lands.

Timeline page: structure first, research second, myth-making never 00:01/SHELL