She made her first prototype in While this book was not electronic it is still hailed as the first automated reader. Her project was never picked up for mass production and she was never able to get a viable patent on the design, but there is a photograph of her holding it in so she can still claim it. The invention of the internet was the next huge step forward in Ebooks. Information sharing, and file sharing was the birthplace of Electronic books.
What might seem like an incredibly boring time in Internet history, as there were not many people on the internet in , Michael Hart turned into an incredible opportunity. The machine was used primarily for data processing, but it was also connected to ARPAnet , a part of what would later become the internet.
When Hart was given a copy of the Declaration of Independence at a grocery store in the lead up to the local fireworks on July 4th, he found his inspiration. Hart came up with a good use of the computer time he had been given. He typed the text into a computer, all in capitals as there was no lower-case option at the time, and sent out a message on ARPAnet saying that it was now available to download.
Six people took him up on the offer and downloaded the text. Hart then set about typing up more texts to make them electronically available. What he created was far more than an electronic text document, what he created was an idea.
The idea of not just using computers to crunch numbers and deal with data, but to get computers sharing text and literature. It was a long time before the next development came along in from the computer games creators East Gate Systems. Born in , Robles was a teacher, writer and lecturer for most of her life. A married mother of three, she died in Though she tried for years to get a patent on her innovative device, Robles never succeeded. The starting point is often pegged at , the year that Michael Hart started Project Gutenberg.
Thanks to Project Gutenberg, we can now read 30, classic texts free of charge and , more from partner efforts. The decades that followed saw slow progress, though important foundations were put in place. Rocket eBook, one of the first e-readers, was released in click to enlarge. From the late s, a variety of portable gadgets came on the scene, including the earliest dedicated ebook readers like the Rocket eBook and the Cybook, released in ; and so-called personal digital assistants PDA like the Palm Pilot , released in There was initial excitement and a lot of development but the wider book market was largely unaffected.
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