> I'm pretty sure the RinkWorks Dialectizer is the original. It was on here the first time I surfed into RW and that was about 1850.

It is not.

The original Dialectizer-like thing dates back to not just the pre-Internet days but the pre-GUI days. "Jive" was written by a couple of guys as a command-line tool that would take raw text as input and give you raw text as output. The version of "Jive" on the Dialectizer site is a souped up version of that code, which had already gone through numerous revisions by the time I got a hold of it around 1992. It inspired me to write some dialects from scratch, and then, later, adapt them for use in parsing HTML code. I wasn't the first one to do that, either (although the Dialectizer does predate Google), but the most popular dialect, Redneck, is a ground-up creation of mine that no one else has.