The document outlines the history and development of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) from the 1960s to the mid-1990s, starting with the first CALL software in 1968, the emergence of early European CALL projects in the 1970s led by Essex University, a focus on language methodology over technology in the 1980s, and the influential PLATO project at the University of Illinois in 1984. It then discusses the development of multimedia tools in the 1990s and the potential of the internet for language teaching and learning identified in the mid-1990s.