nent access to historical
collections in digital format for researchers, historians and scholars.
An archive of the web is stored every two months or so.

2001 > The Creative Commons License

Creative Commons (CC) was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, a
professor at Stanford Law School, California. As explained on its
website: "Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to
making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others,
consistent with the rules of copyright. We provide free licenses and
other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator
wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any
combination thereof." There were one million Creative Commons licensed
works in 2003, 4.7 million licensed works in 2004, 20 million licensed
works in 2005, 50 million licensed works in 2006, 90 million licensed
works in 2007, 130 million licensed works in 2008, and 350 million
licensed works in April 2010.

2001 > Nokia 9210 was the first smartphone

The first smartphone was Nokia 9210, launched as early as 2001. It was
followed by Nokia Series 60, Sony Ericsson P800, and the smartphones of
Motorola and Siemens. Smartphones took off quickly. In February 2005,
Sony stopped selling PDAs. Smartphones represented 3,7% of all
cellphones sold in 2004, and 9% of all cellphones sold in 2006, with 90
million smartphones sold for one billion cellphones.

January 2003 > The Public Library of Science, as a publisher of journals

In early 2003, PLoS created a non-profit scientific and medical
publishing venture to provide scientists and physicians with free
high-quality, high-profile journals in which to publish their work. The
journals were PloS Biology (launched in 2003), PLoS Medicine (2004),
PLoS Genetics (2005), PLoS Computational Biology (2005), PLoS Pathogens
(2005), PLoS Clinical Trials (2006) and PLoS Neglected Tropical
Diseases (2007), the first scientific journal on this topic. All PLoS
articles are freely available online, on the websites of PLoS and in
the public archive PubMed Central, run by the National Library of
Medicine. The articles can be freely redistributed and reused under a
Creative Commons license, including for translations, as long as the
author(s) and source are cited.

February 2003 > Quote from Nicolas Pewny

A bookseller, publisher, and consultant in electronic publishing,
Nicolas Pewny wrote in February 2003: "I see the future digi