Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg was the first online library, created by Michael Hart in 1971. It was meant to be "free of charge and universally accessible" as well as "dedicated to the provision of electronic copies of non-copyrighted texts." The first texts available were American civics documents typed up by Hart himself. Eventually, more internet users were introduced to the project and added their own documents, exponentially increasing the number of books uploaded in a short time. The invention of OCRs, or optical character readers,

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