1981 - DTI established as a division of Oldham Associates Inc.; a Utah private Sub-chapter S corporation. It grew out of technology that had been developed internally during the previous twelve years for Oldham Associates' newspaper and commercial printing operation.

1983 - DTI already using microcomputers and centralized servers, before the term "client - server" was commonly used. DTI begins programming its Display Ad Makeup System on the Apple Lisa. DTI moves into its Orem, UT location.

1984 - DTI releases Display Ad Makeup System (DMS) running on the Macintosh with ads saved on a central server running Concurrent DOS and an upgrade to its classified program running on an LF Technologies minicomputer. DMS is first desktop publishing application to support Postscript output.

1985 - DTI signs its first licensee in the UK--Digital Publishing Systems. Later, DPS merged with Typecraft, to form the DPS/Typecraft company.

1987 - The first training and implementation program was developed. This program has become DTI University - a model of training newspapers on technology that is still somewhat unique to the industry both in terms of approach and positive results. DTI receives the President's Award from NAA for its contribution to the advertising industry. DTI signs second licensee, Pongrass Pty. Ltd, Australia.

1988 - Display AdBuilder, child of DMS for the Mac II platform is announced at ANPA-TEC and licensed to third licensee, Expograph in Holland. NewsBuilder (now PageSpeed) introduced in November. NewsBuilder was producing live paginated pages at two newspapers before the end of the year--Catholic New York and the London Evening Standard.

1989 - New versions of AdSpeed, PageSpeed, and ClassSpeed are introduced which were capable of process color separations. Strategic alliance formed with SII as a way to move DTI's products into the largest daily newspapers. Don Oldham introduces his vision of integrated newspaper systems using a "product wheel".

1990 - DTI achieves database-OPI with SpeedDriver technology. DTI introduces its new Editorial Database using the Sybase database engine running on Sun Sparc RISC architecture using the Unix operating system. DTI & SII dissolve agreement after SII files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. DTI quickly moves into larger daily newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, the Daily News, Los Angeles, The Dallas Morning News, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Dayton Daily News, The Roanoke Times and others.

1991-1994 - DTI continues to grow and develop all of the applications and databases needed to offer a completely integrated newspaper pre-press publishing system. In spite of the popularity of Quark and QPS, DTI remains true to its goals to unify all publishable data in true databases, and to help customers reach full pagination profitably.

1995 - Completion of publishing suite with the pagination database. DTI's Internet Publisher is introduced and successfully installed at various sites including the Lancashire Evening Telegraph in the U.K. L.A. Times Washington edition fully paginated on a DTI system after unsuccessful trials with Quark, followed by SII. New solutions for fully automated and integrated archiving are introduced.

1996 - DTI opens its European office in Germany in October to provide support, training, and the backing of DTI resources to its European resellers, and through them to new customers. Using DTI's publishing system, 17 Cox publications at 14 locations have access to the 6-page special section covering the Olympics which is produced daily in Atlanta. Live pages are shared using DTI's distributed database technology across a Wide Area Network. Digital Technology International becomes the new owner of FaceSpan and introduces the DTI Digital Toolkit enabling users to script, automate and further customize their DTI systems. While industry publications explore the "myths" of pagination, several more DTI customers reach the goal of daily paginating ads and pages 100% to film.

1997 - DTI introduces the Classified Web Server with enhanced features for publishing classified ads directly to the web from the Classified Database. DTI unveils first of cross-platform solutions with a new version of ClassSpeed and its tool for reporters, SpeedWriterX. DTI's quality processes in development and delivery are officially recognized by the International Standards Organization and registered under standard 9001-94.

1998 - DTI establishes an office in Asia. DTI Europe expands to larger premises in Darmstadt, Germany.

1999 - DTI acquires long-time U.K. business partner DPS Typecraft. DTI relocates its international headquarters to a larger facility in Springville, Utah. DTI unveils the new generation, version 5.0, of its database-centered publishing solutions which integrate Adobe InDesign. Journal Publications moves it's Orem Daily exclusively on-line. The Orem Daily Journal is published by existing newspaper staff with an early version of DTI's XML-based web publishing solution.

2000 - DTI releases its new suite of web publishing tools which extend the database workflow and content management strengths of its existing editorial, advertising and classified systems to the Internet.

2004 - DTI adopts new web publishing software from Escenic, a technologically-advanced and fast-growing market leader in content management systems. Escenic’s content studio begins to be phased in to DTI’s WebSpeed web publishing system to create the most advanced and powerful content management system on the market.

2005 - DTI adopts new database technology from Intersystems, called Caché, and begins to convert all its applications to take advantage of Caché’s multi-dimensional-array database architecture and built-in web development platform.

2006 - DTI introduces Liquid Media publishing solutions based on Intersystems’ Ensemble database technology, allowing publishers large and small to convert data they have stored in rigid, separate “silos” into fluid, format-agnostic media content that can publish dynamically to multiple outlet channels.

DTI has an unbroken record of steady, profitable growth, since the second year of its founding. It has proven over an extended period of time, including a time of great upheaval among traditional vendors, to be one of the safest companies to do business with in the newspaper vendor industry.