![]() What might seem like an incredibly boring time in Internet history, as there were not many people on the internet in 1971, Michael Hart turned into an incredible opportunity.The machine was used primarily for data processing, but it was also connected to, a part of what would later become the internet. ![]() Information sharing, and file sharing was the birth place of Electronic books.In 1971, a student at the University of Illinois, was given unlimited computer time on a huge Xerox mainframe computer in the Materials Research lab (probably because his brother’s best friend was one of its operators). The Internet and the First eBook is DownloadedThe invention of was the next huge step forward in E books. Her project was never picked up for mass production and she was never able to get a viable patent on the design, but there is a photograph of her holding it in 1949 so she can still claim it.
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