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Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (born 1947)
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Michael S. Hart
American author, founder of Project Gutenberg (1947–2011)
Michael Stern Hart was an American author, best known as the inventor of the e-book and the founder of Project Gutenberg (PG), the first project to make e-books freely available via the Internet. He published e-books via ARPANET years before the Internet existed, and later on…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Project Gutenberg
Online digital book library
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)