fic topics. It
also became an online digital library of text, audio, software, image
and video content. In October 2001, with 30 billion stored webpages,
the Internet Archive launched the Wayback Machine, for users to be able
to surf the archive of the web by date. In 2004, there were 300
terabytes of data, with a growth of 12 terabytes per month. There were
65 billion webpages (from 50 million websites) in 2006, 85 billion
webpages in 2008 and 150 billion webpages in March 2010.

April 1996 > OneLook Dictionaries

Robert Ware launched his website OneLook Dictionaries in April 1996 as
a "fast finder" in hundreds of online dictionaries. On September 2,
1998, the fast finder could "browse" 2,058,544 words in 425
dictionaries covering various topics: business, computer/internet,
medical, miscellaneous, religion, science, sports, technology, general,
and slang. OneLook Dictionaries was provided as a free service by the
company Study Technologies, in Englewood, Colorado. OneLook
Dictionaries could browse 2,5 million words from 530 dictionaries in
2000, and 5 million words from 910 dictionaries in 2003.

Mai 1996 > DAISY, a standard for digital audiobooks

Founded in May 1996, the DAISY Consortium (DAISY meant: Digital Audio
Information System, before meaning: Digital Accessible Information
System) is an international consortium responsible for the transition
from analog audiobooks (on tapes or cassettes) and digital audiobooks.
Its task was to define an international standard, set up the conditions
for the production exchange and use of audiobooks, and organize the
digitization of audiobooks worldwide. The DAISY standard is based on
the DTB (Digital Talking Book) format, which allows the indexing of
audiobooks with bookmarks for paragraphs, pages and chapters, to make
it easier to navigate through the books.

October 1996 > The @folio project

The @folio project is a reading device conceived in October 1996 by
Pierre Schweitzer, an architect-designer living in Strasbourg, France.
It is meant to download and read any text and/or illustrations from the
web or hard disk, in any format, with no proprietary format and no DRM
(Digital Rights Management). The technology of @folio is novel and
simple. It is inspired from fax and tab file folders. The flash memory
is "printed" like Gutenberg printed his books. The facsimile mode is
readable as is for any content, from sheet music to mathematical or
chemical formulas, with no c