ssionals. In September 1998,
NetGlos was available in the following languages: Chinese, Croatian,
English, Dutch/Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Maori,
Norwegian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

1995 > The Ethnologue: Languages of the World, on the web

Published by SIL International (SIL was initially known as the Summer
Institute of Linguistics) since 1951, and freely available on the web
since 1995, "The Ethnologue: Languages of the World" is an encyclopedic
reference work cataloging all of the world's 6,909 known living
languages. The 16th edition was published in 2009, in print and on the
web. The Ethnologue has been an active research project for more than
fifty years. Thousands of linguists have contributed to the Ethnologue
worldwide. A new edition is published approximately every four years.

1995 > The print press went online in the U.S.

The first electronic versions of print newspapers were available in the
early 1990s through commercial services like America Online and
CompuServe. In 1995, newspapers and magazines began offering websites
with a partial or full version of their latest issue, available freely
or through subscription (free or paid), as well as online archives. For
example, the site of The New York Times site could be accessed free of
charge, with articles of the print daily newspaper, breaking news
updated every ten minutes, and original reporting only available
online. The site of The Washington Post gave the daily news online,
with a full database of articles, with images, sound and video. The
computer press went logically online as well, first the monthly Wired,
created in 1992 in California to cover cyberculture as "the magazine of
the future at the avant-garde of the 21st century", then ZDNet, as a
leading computer online magazine.

1995 > The print press went online worldwide

In United Kingdom, for example, the daily Times and the Sunday Times
set up a common website called Times Online, with a way to create a
personalized edition. The weekly publication The Economist went online,
as well as the weekly Le Monde Diplomatique and daily Le Monde and
Liberation in France, the daily El Pais in Spain, and the weekly Focus
and Der Spiegel in Germany.

July 1995 > Amazon.com

The online bookstore Amazon.com was launched by Jeff Bezos in July
1995, in Seattle, on the West coast of the U.S., after a market study
which led him to conclude that books were the best products to se