: Library Websites
1994: Bold Publishers
1995: Amazon.com
1995: Online Press
1996: Palm Pilot
1996: Internet Archive
1996: New Ways of Teaching
1997: Digital Publishing
1997: Logos Dictionary
1997: Multimedia Convergence
1998: Online Beowulf
1998: Digital Librarians
1998: Multilingual Web
1999: Open eBook Format
1999: Digital Authors
2000: yourDictionary.com
2000: Online Bible of Gutenberg
2000: Distributed Proofreaders
2000: Public Library of Science
2001: Wikipedia
2001: Creative Commons
2002: MIT OpenCourseWare
2004: Project Gutenberg Europe
2004: Google Books
2005: Open Content Alliance
2006: Microsoft Live Search Books
2006: Free WorldCat
2007: Citizendium
2007: Encyclopedia of Life

Websites

INTRODUCTION

Michael Hart, who founded Project Gutenberg in 1971, wrote: "We
consider eText to be a new medium, with no real relationship to paper,
other than presenting the same material, but I don't see how paper can
possibly compete once people each find their own comfortable way to
eTexts, especially in schools." (excerpt from a NEF interview, August
1998)

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the web in 1989-90, wrote: "The dream
behind the web is of a common information space in which we communicate
by sharing information. Its universality is essential: the fact that a
hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global,
be it draft or highly polished. There was a second part of the dream,
too, dependent on the web being so generally used that it became a
realistic mirror (or in fact the primary embodiment) of the ways in
which we work and play and socialize. That was that once the state of
our interactions was on line, we could then use computers to help us
analyse it, make sense of what we are doing, where we individually fit
in, and how we can better work together." (excerpt from: The World Wide
Web: A Very Short Personal History, May 1998)

John Mark Ockerbloom, who created The Online Books Page in 1993, wrote:
"I've gotten very interested in the great potential the net had for
making literature available to a wide audience. (...) I am very excited
about the potential of the internet as a mass communication medium in
the coming years. I'd also like to stay involved, one way or another,
in making books available to a wide audience for free via the net,
whether I make this explicitly part of my professional career, or
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