Re: Gutenberg and www

Hello All,

It follows the response coming from Mr Greg Newby the person in charge at
Project Gutenberg Library Archive Foundation:

Dear Guntur,

Thank you for your interesting note.  The answer was not easy to find in
the 'About' section ofhttps://www.gutenberg.org

I was surprised to find this was not a topic of the interviews by Marie
Lebert or Sam Vaknin, but indeed I could not find this information there in
my search.  (I did some simple Google searches looking for "Johannes"
alongside "Hart").
However, I did find the explanation in Michael's own words, from our
newsletter in 1999:
 "I chose [the name Project Gutenberg] because my goal was to change the
way information is passed from person to person as much as Johannes
Gutenberg did. He reduced the price of books to 1/400th of their previous
cost which was equal to that of the average family farm beforehand!! Now
you can buy a 25G hard drive for $300. . .and you **could** put 5 thousand
copies of the Complete Works of Shakespeare on a drive like that, without
compression. . .that's 6 cents a copy! There are terabyte drive packs on
the way, that will cost less, and will hold just about every word in even a
*large* library!! It will not so many of these to hold the Library of
Congress!!! I have heard estimates from 2 to 20 terabytes. . .but when such
terabytes are as common as gigabytes are now. . .who will care?"


https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48791/48791-h/48791-h.htm#2H_4_0012

I hope this is helpful. It is certainly ok (under the terms of "fair use"
or "fair dealing," as it is known internationally) to use this quote and
cite Michael Hart as author.

Best regards,
  Greg Newby



Pada Kamis, 14 Maret 2019, Guntur Wiseno Putra <gsenopu@gmail.com> menulis:

> Hello All,
>
>
> As I made a post in Web History Community Page and still finded minutes
> ago it status "Pending" then I decide to send it t
> public-webhistory@w3.org. The post is below:
>
>
> What is it about when we type “www” before “gutenberg”? The first is about
> a contemporary information and communication technology manifested by the
> internet; while the latter reminds us about a printing technology –as
> something coming from 15 century (for a reference to “Gutenberg” http://
> newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Johannes_Gutenberg/).
>
> Michael Hart himself did not mention about the origin of the name usage
> –“gutenberg”– at least in his presentation on the history and philosophy of
> Project Gutenberg (http://gutenberg.org/wiki/Gut
> enberg:The_History_and_Philosophy_of_Project_Gutenberg_by_Michael_Hart/).
>
> On both we may talk about text productions. Thus we find www.gutenberg.org as
> a historical situation of technologies. What should we name it…? — could we
> say about a poetry on technologies for the allusions it made…?
>
>
>
> Regard,
>
>
> Guntur Wiseno Putra
>
>
> (Note: There is the "cc" of person in  charge at Project Gutenberg Library
> Archive Foundation Mr. Greg Newby.)
>