Brief History of Olive Tree

1984: Olive Tree began with a student project where Drew Haninger and a student produced a searchable Greek New Testament on a monochrome PC.

1988: Drew Haninger developed a multilingual word processor that supported Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, and Roman fonts.

Early 1990's: Developed several DOS programs for studying and analyzing the Gospels.

1996: Built a website ( OliveTree.com ) that supported searching the Bible.

August 1998: With the increased interest in handheld devices, the first Palm Pilot BibleReader was released.

January 1999: First Windows CE (now Pocket PC) BibleReader was released. Also, the NKJV was released for handhelds.

2000: The company assumed the name Olive Tree Bible Software. The name is taken from Romans 11:17. Incorporated in 2000.

2002: The BibleReader resources are encoded with a markup language called OTML. OTML stands for Olive Tree Markup Language.

2005: The BibleReader was made available for Smartphone, Symbian, and BlackBerry devices.

2008: The BibleReader was made available for Apple iPhone.

Today: Over 10,000 free Biblical items (Bibles, commentaries, eBooks) are downloaded from our website every month!