Distributed Proofreaders er 5 år

Meget bra artikkel om historien til prosjektet Distributed Proofreaders i TeleRead, 22. okt. 2005: 5 Years of Distributed Proofreaders.

Michael Hart started Project Gutenberg in 1971 with the publication of an electronic version of the US Declaration of Independence, and in the process invented the ebook and the spam run (he sent the file to all hundred computers on the internet). In 1990, almost twenty years later, Project Gutenberg had 100 etexts to offer its visitors.