al dictionaries and tools to the world for
free on the internet. The site has grown gradually ever since to
become one of the most-used online dictionaries, and the top online
dictionary for its language pairs of English-Spanish, English-French,
English-Italian, Spanish-French, and Spanish-Portuguese. Today, I am
happy to continue working on improving the dictionaries, its tools and
the language forums. I really do enjoy creating new features to make
the site more and more useful."

1999 > Wordfast, a translation memory software

Created in 1999 by Yves Champollion in Paris, France, Wordfast is a
translation memory software with terminology processing in real time.
Worldfast is compatible with the IBM WebSphere Translation Server and
other translation memory software like Trados. For a few years, a basic
version of Wordfast was available for free, with a manual in 16
languages. In 2010, Wordfast is the most widely used translation memory
solution for many key criteria, including its availability on any
platform (Windows, Mac, Linux), and the second most widely used
translation memory software in the world (the first one being SDL
Trados), with over 20.000 customer deployments, including the United
Nations, Nomura Securities, the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space
Administration) and McGraw-Hill.

September 1999 > The Open eBook (OeB) format

The digital publishing industry felt the need to work on a common
format for ebooks. It released in September 1999 the first version of
the Open eBook (OeB) format, based on XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
and defined by the Open eBook Publication Structure (OeBPS). The Open
eBook Forum was created in January 2000 to develop the OeB format and
OeBPS specifications. Since 2000, most ebook formats have been derived
from--or are compatible with--the OeB format, for example the PRC
format from Mobipocket or the LIT format from Microsoft.

December 1999 > Britannica.com, or the Encyclopedia Britannica on the
web

Britannica.com was launched in December 1999. The website is the
digital equivalent of the 32 volumes of the 15th edition of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, available for free, as a complement to the
print version and CD-ROM version. The website also offers a selection
of articles from 70 magazines, a guide to the best websites, a
selection of books, etc., with a single search engine. In September
2000, the site is in the top 100 websites in the world. In July 2001,
th