History
The design of TWAIN began in January, 1991. The TWAIN group originally launched in 1992 by several members of the imaging industry, with the intention of standardizing communication between image handling software and hardware. Review of the original TWAIN Developer’s Toolkit occurred from April, 1991 through January, 1992.
The word TWAIN is not an official acronym; however, it is widely known as "Thing Without An Interesting Name" or "Technology Without An Interesting Name." The official website notes that " continues to haunt the standard."
The word TWAIN is from Rudyard Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" — "...and never the twain shall meet..." — reflecting the difficulty at the time of connecting scanners and personal computers.
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