ink of the spectrum. It has to be administered well so
all the earth's people can use it and benefit from it
(eliminate the digital divide)." And the information society is
"the people who already use cyberspace in their daily lives to
such an extent that it is hard to imagine living without it
(the other side of the divide)."

Tim McKenna is an author who thinks and writes about the
complexity of truth in a world of flux. "Cyberspace to me is
the distance that is bridged when individuals use technology to
connect, either by sharing information or chatting. To say that
one exists in cyberspace is really to say that he has
eliminated distance as a barrier to connecting with people and
ideas." And the information society? "The information society
to me is the tangible form of Jung's collective consciousness.
Most of the information resides in the subconsciousness but
browsing technology has made the information more retrievable
which in turn allows us greater self-knowledge both as
individuals and as human beings."

CHRONOLOGY

[Each line begins with the year or the year/month.]

1968: ASCII is the first character set encoding.
1971: Project Gutenberg is the first digital library.
1974: The internet takes off.
1977: UNIMARC is created as a common bibliographic format for
library catalogs.
1984: Copyleft is a new license for computer software.
1990: The web is invented by Tim Berners-Lee.
1991/01: Unicode is a universal character set encoding for
all languages.
1993/01: The Online Books Page is a list of free ebooks on
the internet.
1993/06: Adobe launches PDF, Acrobat Reader and Adobe
Acrobat.
1993/11: Mosaic is the first web browser.
1994: The first library website goes online.
1994: Bold publishers post free digital versions of
copyrighted books.
1995/07: Amazon.com is the first main online bookstore.
1995: Mainstream print newspapers and magazines launch their
own websites.
1996/03: The Palm Pilot is launched as the first PDA.
1996/04: The Internet Archive is founded to archive the web.
1996: Teachers explore new ways of teaching using the
internet.
1997/01: Multimedia convergence is the topic of a symposium.
1997/04: E Ink begins developing a technology called
electronic ink.
1997: Online publishing begins spreading.
1997: The Logos Dictionary goes online for free.
1998/05: 00h00.com sells books "only" in digital format.
1998: Library treasures like Be