Michael Hart
Michael Stern Hart was an American author, best known as the inventor of the e-book and the founder of Project Gutenberg (PG), the first project to make e-books freely available via the Internet. He published e-books via ARPANET years before the Internet existed, and later on BBS networks and Gopher servers.
A Brief History of the Internet The Bright Side: The Dark Side
** Explore the rise of a futuristic communication tool and the growing divide it creates between the information "haves" and "have-nots."
By Michael Hart
Project Gutenberg Newsletters 1999 Thirteen Letters: December 1998 to December 1999
Explore the digital frontier of literature as one project races against the clock to preserve and share the world's written treasures.
By Michael Hart
Price/Cost Indexes from 1875 to 1989; Estimated to 2010
Explore how the fluctuating prices of goods, especially electronics, reveal the changing value of money over more than a century.
By Michael Hart