The US Declaration of Independence plays a big role in the history of the United States. Who would have guessed that the same sacred document would be the origin of E-books? In 1971, a man named Michael Hart was grocery shopping when he noticed an awful bunch of copies of the Declaration of Independence in the shelves. The man had a vision of how powerful the net would become in the future and at that very moment he had a vision of sending typed up copies of the Declaration of Independence to everyone hooked up in the net.
Project Gutenberg. Michael Hart founded “Project Gutenberg” which is known today as the largest collection of e-books in the world. What used to be a wide collection of software formatted text that gets pushed in the Net and accessible to the general public have evolved throughout the decades. Ultimately, it gave birth to the production of electronic hardware such as portable computers, cellphones and E-books which are all popularly used.
Do check this link as it contains a very informative chart as to how books have evolved throughout the centuries.
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