ishing
online in Toronto what they can't publish online at home." (NEF
Interview)

March 2001 > IBM launched the WebSphere Translation Server

In March 2001, IBM embarked on a growing translation market with a
high-end professional product, the WebSphere Translation Server. The
software could instantly translate in several languages (Chinese,
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish) webpages,
emails and chats. It could process 500 words per second and add
specific terminology to the software.

March 2001 > Palm launched the Palm Reader

In March 2001, Palm bought Peanutpress.com, a publisher and distributor
of digital books for PDAs, that previously belonged to the netLibrary
company. The Peanut Reader merged with (or became) the Palm Reader,
that could be used on Palm Pilots and Pocket PCs, and the 2,000 titles
from Peanutpress.com were transferred to the digital bookstore Palm
Digital Media. In July 2002, the Palm Reader was also available for
computers. Palm Digital Media distributes 5,500 titles in several
languages in July 2002, and 10,000 titles in 2003. Photo: Palm Treo
700p.

April 2001 > PDAs and ebook readers: a few numbers

There were 17 million PDAs worldwide and only 100,000 ebook readers in
April 2001, according to the Seybold Report. 13,2 million PDAs were
sold in 2001. Palm stayed the leader, despite fierce competition, with
23 million Palm Pilots sold between 1996 and 2002. In 2002, 36.8% of
all PDAs available on the market were Palm Pilots. Its main competitor
was Microsoft's Pocket PC. The main platforms were Palm OS (for 55% of
PDAs) and Pocket PC (for 25,7%). In 2004, prices began to drop. The
leaders were the PDAs of Palm, Sony, and Hewlett-Packard, followed by
Handspring, Toshiba, and Casio. But smartphones were more and more
popular, and the sales of PDAs began to drop. Sony stopped selling
PDAs in February 2005.

October 2001 > The Wayback Machine

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. Founded in April 1996 by Brewster
Kahle, the Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that has built
an "internet library" to offer perma