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Let us get back to the beginnings of the project. In upper case, because there was no lower case yet. But to send a 5 K file to the 100 users of the embryonic internet would have crashed the network. It was downloaded by six users. Project Gutenberg was born.
They can be easily downloaded with a standard phone line. Searching a word or a phrase is simple too. A text that is still in the Top 100 of downloaded texts in 2005. In 1988, Michael Hart chose to digitize Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Peter Pan because they each fitted on one 360 K disk, the standard of the time.
But to send a 5 K file to the 100 users of the embryonic internet would have crashed the network. It was downloaded by six users. Project Gutenberg was born. Michael decided to use this huge amount of computer time to search the public domain books that were stored in our libraries, and to digitize these books.
It had 5,000 books online in April 2002, 10,000 books online in October 2003, and 15,000 books online in January 2005, with 400 new books available per month, 40 mirror sites in a number of countries, and books downloaded by the tens of thousands every day.
Project Gutenberg sent out 15 million books via snail mail in 2007, under the form of CDs and DVDs. Dated July 2006, the latest DVD included 17,000 books. Since 2005, CD and DVD files have also been periodically generated as ISO files to be downloaded and used to make a CD or DVD using a CD or DVD writer. DP processed 11,934 books since its beginnings.
January 2004: 25 languages. July 2005: 42 languages. December 2006: 50 languages. April 2008: 55 languages. = Main Languages = Downloads From ibiblio.org *ibiblio.org is the main downloading site. The downloads of mirror sites are not included here. July 31, 2005: 37,532 files downloaded in the day; 243,808 files downloaded in the week; 1,154,765 files downloaded in the month.
It also contains a few music recordings. Some still pictures and moving pictures are also available. These new collections should take off in the future. But digitizing books remains the priority, and there is a big demand, as confirmed by the tens of thousands of books that are downloaded every day.
Around 104 books per month were released in 2001. Released in October 2001, the 4000th book was The French Immortals Series, in English. A text that is steadily in the Top 100 of downloaded texts. In 1988, Michael Hart chose to digitize Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Peter Pan because they each fitted on one 360 K disk, the standard of the time.
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