Part 6 (1/2)
Jean-Paul added in June 2000: ”Surfing the web is like radiating in all directions (I a and I click on all the links on a ho around (from one click to another, as the links appear) You can do this in the printSo the internet didn't change e horite You don't write the same way for a website as you do for a script or a play
But it wasn't exactly the internet that changed , it was the firstabout buttons and links and about surfing by association, objects and i on part of the screen, to open piles of cards, with each card offering new buttons and each button opening onto a new series of the about the web that today seems really routine was a revelation for me
I hear Steve Jobs and his team had the same kind of shock when they discovered the forerunner of the Mac in the labs of Rank Xerox
Since then I have been writing directly on the screen I use a paper print-out only occasionally, to help ive so immediate It is only an approximation, because print forces us into a linear relationshi+p: the words scroll out page by page most of the time But when you have links, you have a different relationshi+p to tireat opportunity to use this reading/writing interplay, whereas leafing through a book gives only a suggestion of it -- a vague one because a book is not meant for that”
2000: YOURDICTIONARYCOM
[Overview]
After founding A Web of Online Dictionaries (WOD) in 1995, Robert Beard included it in a larger project, yourDictionarycom, that he cofounded in early 2000 He wrote in January 2000: ”The neebsite is an index of 1,200+ dictionaries in es Besides the WOD, the neebsite includes a word-of-the-day-feature, word gae chat room, the old Web of On-line Grae resources), the Web of Linguistic Fun, lish dictionaries; thesauri and other vocabulary aids; language identifiers and guessers, and other features; dictionary indices yourDictionarycoest language resource site on the web It is now actively acquiring dictionaries and graered languages It is overseen by a blue ribbon panel of linguistic experts from all over the world”
[In Depth (published in 2001)]
After creating A Web of Online Dictionaries in 1995, Robert Beard cofounded yourDictionarycom in early 2000 He wrote in January 2000: ”A Web of Online Dictionaries (WOD) is now a part of yourDictionarycom (as of February 15, 2000) The neebsite is an index of 1,200+ dictionaries in es Besides the WOD, the neebsite includes a word-of-the-day-feature, word gae chat room, the old Web of On-line Grae resources), the Web of Linguistic Fun, lish dictionaries; thesauri and other vocabulary aids; language identifiers and guessers, and other features; dictionary indices YourDictionarycoest language resource site on the web It is now actively acquiring dictionaries and graered languages It is overseen by a blue ribbon panel of linguistic experts fro ualislish still dolish websites is gaining strength with the various solutions to the font problees without writing systees have writing syste to the loss of language identity and still suspect itit More and uists, asking thee and help them put up dictionaries For these people, the web is an affordable boon for cultural expression”
Answering the same question, Caoimhin o Donnaile wrote in May 2001: ”I would eered languages, the internet speeds everything up If people don't care about preserving languages, the internet and accoreatly speed their de them, the internet will be a tre - through the Gaelic language - at the Institute Sabhal Mor Ostaig, located on the Island of Skye, in Scotland He also e website, which is the main site ith information on Scottish Gaelic He also uages by alphabetic order and by language fareat expansion in the use of infore here Farstaff, flat screens Students do everything by coy database More hits on our web site More use of sound Gaelic radio (both Scottish and Irish) now available continuously ide via the internet Major project has been translation of the Opera web-browser into Gaelic - the first software of any size available in Gaelic”
Published by SIL International (SIL: Sues of the World is a catalogue of es A paper version and a CD-ROM are also available
Barbara Grimes was the editor of the 8th to 14th editions, 1971-2000
She wrote in January 2000: ”It is a catalog of the languages of the world, with information about where they are spoken, an estie family they are in, alternate naraphic infore fae maps”
2000: ONLINE BIBLE OF GUTENBERG
[Overview]
The Bible of Gutenberg went online in November 2000, on the website of the British Library As we all know, the Bible of Gutenberg is considered as the first print book Gutenberg printed it in 1455 in Ger 180 copies, with 48 copies that would still exist in 2000 Three copies - two full ones and one partial one - belong to the British Library The two full copies - a little different froitized in March 2000 by experts froraph and Telephone Communications)
2000: DISTRIBUTED PROOFREADERS
[Overview]
Conceived in October 2000 by Charles Franks, Distributed Proofreaders was launched online in March 2001 to help in the digitization of public domain books TheeBooks for errors into sinallyof shared proofreading, Distributed Proofreaders has beco eBooks In 2002, Distributed Proofreaders beca site The nurown fast In 2003, about 250-300 people orking each day all over the world producing a daily total of 2,500-3,000 pages, the equivalent of two pages a e was 300-400 proofreaders participating each day and finishi+ng 4,000-7,000 pages per day, the equivalent of four pages a minute