ter of cotres.net. He wrote in June
2000: "Surfing the web is like radiating in all directions (I am
interested in something and I click on all the links on a home page) or
like jumping around (from one click to another, as the links appear).
You can do this in the written media, of course. But the difference is
striking. So the internet changed how I write. You don't write the same
way for a website as you do for a script or a play. (...) Since then I
write directly on the screen: I use the print medium only occasionally
(...): the text is developing page after page (most of the time),
whereas the technique of links allows another relationship to the time
and space of imagination. And, for me, it is above all the opportunity
to put into practice this reading/writing 'cycle', whereas leafing
through a book gives only an idea--which is vague because the book is
not conceived for that" (NEF Interview).

July 2000 > 50% non English-speaking internet users

In summer 1999, internet users living outside the U.S. reached 50%. One
year later, in summer 2000, non English-speaking users reached 50% in
summer 2000. According to Global Reach, they were 52.5% in summer 2001,
57% in December 2001, 59.8% in April 2002, 64.4% in September 2003
(including 34.9% non-English-speaking Europeans and 29.4% Asians), and
64.2% in March 2004 (including 37.9% non-English-speaking Europeans and
33% Asians). This was a turning point for a multilingual internet,
although much still needed to be done to offer more websites in
languages other than English, bilingual websites and multilingual
websites.

July 2000 > Stephen King, a digital pioneer

In July 2000 began the electronic (self-)publishing of The Plant, an
epistolary novel by Stephen King, who was the first author of
best-sellers to make such a bet. Stephen King started his digital
experiment with the distribution in March 2000 of his short story
Riding the Bullet, which was downloaded 400,000 times during the first
24 hours, and brought a lot of media buzz. Then he created a website to
self-publish his novel The Plant in episodes. The chapters were
published at regular intervals and could be downloaded in several
formats (PDF, OeB, HTML, TXT). But after the publication of the sixth
chapter in December 2000, the author decided to step down and stop this
experiment because more and more readers were downloading the chapters
without paying for them. Stephen King went on with digital experi