A Timeline of Events1895
¶72 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p72Otlet’s Permanent Encyclopedia: liberating ideas from the binding of books. 1936
¶73 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p73Wells’s *World Brain*: a vision of a worldwide encyclopedia using microfilm. 1945
¶74 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p74Bush’s memex: a vision of a hypertextual knowledge space and new forms of encyclopedias. 1965
¶75 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p75Nelson’s Xanadu: a vision of hypertext. 1971
¶76 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p76Hart’s Project Gutenberg: a vision of providing ebooks through achievable means (“plain vanilla ASCII”). 1980s
¶77 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p77Academic American Encyclopedia is made available in an online experiment; multimedia CD-ROMs soon follow. 1991
¶78 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p78Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web: a vision of highly accessible read/write. 1993
¶79 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p79Interpedia: an ambiguous vision lost among too many infrastructural options. 1995
¶80 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p80Cunningham’s WikiWikiWeb: making the Web easy to collaboratively edit. 1999
¶81 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p81Distributed Encyclopedia: many people should contribute independent essays that could be centrally indexed. 1999
¶82 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p82Stallman’s “The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource.” 2000
¶83 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p83Distributed Proofreaders: distributing the task of proofreading among many. 2000 (March 9)
¶84 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p84Nupedia launched: a FOSS-inspired expert-driven free encyclopedia. 2001 (January 10)
¶85 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p85“Let’s make a Wiki.” 2001 (January 15)
¶86 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p86www.wikipedia.comlaunched. 2001 (January 16)
¶87 http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-2.html#p87GNE Project Announced.