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Michael Stern Hart was an American author credited with the invention of the e-book, and who founded Project Gutenberg (PG), the first project to make e-books freely available via the Internet. He published e-books via ARPANET years before the Internet existed, and later on BBS networks and Gopher servers.
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business · American author, founder of Project Gutenberg (1947–2011) · writer · computer scientist · businessperson · inventor · also Michael S. Hart, Michael Stern Hart, Michael Hart, Hart
Born 8 March 1947 · Died 6 September 2011 · Q22677
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“s Brewster Kahle to say he was”
“Even the greatest journeys start with but a single step.”
Of a heart attack at his home in Urbana, Illinois
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Died 2011-09-06.
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“Think about that for a moment and you realise we are in the right job.”
Hart died on September 6, 2011, of a heart attack at his home in Urbana, Illinois.
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“The biggest problem is the time it takes to do the necessary copyright research before making an e-text. The next biggest is dealing with the constant threat of lawsuits, which come in every year.”
To develop a free and openly accessible "Internet Encyclopedia", called "Interpedia"
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Wanted to "give back" by doing something that could be considered to be of great value
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To digitizing and distributing literature from works in the public domain with free and expired copyrights
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His family relocated to Urbana, Illinois, and his father and mother became college professors in Shakespearean studies and mathematics education, respectively
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Born 1947-03-08.
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