Digital Humanities (DH) 2006 was the first conference hosted by the newly constituted Association of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). It represents a continuation of the ALLC and ACH joint conferences, and this continuation can be seen in the topics discussed in the various papers, panels and posters. In February 1989 readers of the Humanist Mailing List, then into its second year, and then as now edited by Willard McCarty, could read the following list of topics that would be presented in the first joint ACH/ALLC conference in Toronto later that year, which included: archaeology; lexical databases; authorship attribution; manuscript bibliographies; computational linguistics; music; humanistic research; national research funding; computer-assisted learning; content analysis; narrative analysis; databases; scanning; discourse analysis; stylistics; editorial problems; text archives; the French novel; funding issues; text encoding; hypertext.