![]() Hart later came to an arrangement with Carnegie Mellon University, which agreed to administer Project Gutenberg's finances. He manually entered all of the text until 1989 when image scanners and optical character recognition software improved and became more available, making book scanning more feasible. He named the project for Johannes Gutenberg, the fifteenth century German printer who propelled the movable type printing press revolution.īy the mid-1990s, Hart was running Project Gutenberg from Illinois Benedictine College. He used a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence in his backpack, and this became the first Project Gutenberg e-text. Hart believed one day the general public would be able to access computers and decided to make works of literature available in electronic form for free. This particular computer was one of the 15 nodes on ARPANET, the computer network that would become the Internet. Declaration of Independence, he decided to type the text into a computer, and to transmit it to other users on the computer network. On July 4, 1971, after being inspired by a free printed copy of the U.S. His initial goal was to make the 10,000 most consulted books available to the public at little or no charge by the end of the 20th century. Hart explained he wanted to "give back" this gift by doing something one could consider to be of great value. Through friendly operators, he received an account with a virtually unlimited amount of computer time its value at that time has since been variously estimated at $100,000 or $100,000,000. Hart, a student at the University of Illinois, obtained access to a Xerox Sigma V mainframe computer in the university's Materials Research Lab. Hart began Project Gutenberg in 1971 with the digitization of the United States Declaration of Independence. Hart (left) and Gregory Newby (right) of Project Gutenberg, at Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) Conference, 2006. Project Gutenberg is named after the inventor Johannes Gutenberg, whose works in developing printing technology led to an increase in the mass availability of books and other text. Project Gutenberg is closely affiliated with Distributed Proofreaders, an Internet-based community for proofreading scanned texts. ![]() There are multiple affiliated projects that provide additional content, including region- and language-specific works. Most releases are in the English language, but many non-English works are also available. The releases are available in plain text as well as other formats, such as HTML, PDF, EPUB, MOBI, and Plucker wherever possible. As of 3 October 2015, Project Gutenberg had reached 50,000 items in its collection of free eBooks. All files can be accessed for free under an open format layout, available on almost any computer. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain. Project Gutenberg ( PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. For other uses, see Project Gutenberg (disambiguation). ![]()
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