In March 2001, Palm bought Peanutpress.com, a publisher and distributor
of digital books for PDAs, from the netLibrary company. The Peanut
Reader merged with (or became) the Palm Reader, that could be used on
Palm Pilots and Pocket PCs, and the 2,000 titles from Peanutpress.com
were transferred to the digital bookstore Palm Digital Media. In July
2002, the Palm Reader was also available for computers. Palm Digital
Media distributed 5,500 ebooks in several languages in July 2002, and
10,000 ebooks in 2003.
April 2001 > PDAs and ebook readers: a few numbers
In April 2001, there were 17 million PDAs and only 100,000 ebook
readers worldwide, according to a Seybold Report. 13,2 million PDAs
were sold in 2001. Palm was the leader, despite fierce competition,
with 23 million Palm Pilots sold between 1996 and 2002. In 2002, 36.8%
of all PDAs were Palm Pilots. The Palm Pilot's main competitor was
Microsoft's Pocket PC. The main platforms were Palm OS (for 55% PDAs)
and Pocket PC (for 25,7% PDAs). In 2004, prices began to drop. The
leaders were the PDAs of Palm, Sony, and Hewlett-Packard, followed by
Handspring, Toshiba, and Casio. Smartphones became more and more
popular then, and the sales of PDAs began to drop. Sony stopped selling
PDAs in February 2005.
October 2001 > The Wayback Machine, launched by the Internet Archive
In October 2001, with 30 billion stored webpages, the Internet Archive
launched the Wayback Machine, for users to be able to surf the archive
of the web by date. In 2004, there were 300 terabytes of data, with a
growth of 12 terabytes per month. There were 65 billion webpages (from
50 million websites) in 2006, 85 billion webpages in 2008, and 150
billion webpages in March 2010. Founded in April 1996 by Brewster
Kahle, the Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that has built
an "internet library" to offer permanent access to historical
collections in digital format for researchers, historians, scholars,
and the general public. Since then, an archive of the web has been
stored every two months or so.
2001 > Creative Commons, to adapt copyright to the web
Creative Commons (CC) was founded in 2001 by Lawrence "Larry" Lessig, a
professor at Stanford Law School, California. As explained on its
website in 2009: "Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated
to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of
others, consistent with the rules of copyright. We provide free
licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom
the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use
commercially, or any combination thereof." There were one million
Creative Commons licensed works in 2003, 4.7 million in 2004, 20
million in 2005, 50 million in 2006, 90 million in 2007, 130 million in
2008, and 350 million in April 2010.
2001 > Nokia 9210 was the first smartphone
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