ination of knowledge.
In September 2002, a pilot version was available online with 32 course
materials. The website was officially launched in September 2003. 500
course materials were available in March 2004. In May 2006, 1,400
course materials were offered by 34 departments belonging to the five
schools of MIT. In November 2007, all 1,800 course materials were
available, and regularly updated. MIT also launched the OpenCourseWare
Consortium (OCW Consortium) in November 2005, as a collaboration of
educational institutions that were willing to offer free online course
materials. One year later, it included the course materials of 100
universities worldwide.

February 2004 > Facebook, a social network

Facebook is a social network founded in February 2004 by Mark
Zuckerberg and his fellow students Eduardo Saverini, Dustin Moskovitz
and Chris Hughes. Originally created for students of Harvard
University, it was made available to students from any university in
the U.S., and open to all from September 2006 to connect with
relatives, friends and strangers. It was become the second most visited
website in the world, after Google, if not the first, with 500 million
users in June 2010, while sparking debates on privacy issues.

April 2004 > The Librie, an ebook reader from Sony

Sony launched its first ebook reader, Librie 1000-EP, in Japan in April
2004, in partnership with Philips and E Ink. Librie was the first ebook
reader to use the E Ink technology, with a 6-inch screen, a 10 M
memory, and a 500-ebook capacity. eBooks were downloaded from a
computer through a USB port. The Librie is the ancestor of the Sony
Reader, launched in October 2006 in the U.S.

2004 > The web 2.0, based on community and sharing

Since 2004, the web 2.0 has been based on community and sharing, with a
wealth of websites whose content is supplied by users, such as blogs,
wikis, social networks or collaborative encyclopedias. Wikipedia,
Facebook and Twitter, of course, but also tens of thousands of others.
The term "web 2.0" was invented in 2004 by Tim O'Reilly, founder of
O'Reilly Media, a publisher of computer books, as the title for a
conference he was organizing . The web 2.0 concept may answer the dream
of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web in 1990, as "the web being so
generally used that it became a realistic mirror (or in fact the
primary embodiment) of the ways in which we work and play and
socialize." (The World Wide Web: A very sh