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UllallullooMA to Today I Learned (TIL)English · 2 years ago

TIL Michael Hart started Project Gutenberg by manually typing in the texts of 313 books on his own

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TIL Michael Hart started Project Gutenberg by manually typing in the texts of 313 books on his own

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UllallullooMA to Today I Learned (TIL)English · 2 years ago
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Michael Hart obituary
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He invented ebooks and made them freely available through Project Gutenberg
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    2 years ago

    Dude was 64 and wanted to retire somewhere warm. ☹️

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