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The first website was created in August 1991 ... Trincoll Journal was a multimedia webzine published by students at ... Powells.com is the website of Powell's Books.
In January 1991, the first web servers outside CERN were switched on. On 6 August 1991, Berners-Lee published a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the newsgroup alt.hypertext, inviting collaborators. [22] Paul Kunz from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) visited CERN in September 1991, and was captivated by the Web.
The first published book by the printing press was an Italian–Arabic dictionary. [48] Lithographic printmaking was introduced as a way of mechanical reproduction of text and image by the 19th century CE, shortly after its invention in the Kingdom of Bavaria. [52]
On 4 April 2007, the first Wikipedia CD selection in English was published as a free download. [ 206 ] On 22 April 2007, the English Wikipedia passed the 1,750,000 -article mark.
Web fiction is written works of literature available primarily or solely on the Internet.A common type of web fiction is the web serial. The term comes from old serial stories that were once published regularly in newspapers and magazines.
The first edition of The World Book Encyclopedia was published (as simply The World Book) in 1917, [1] by the Hanson-Roach-Fowler Company. "As a rule," wrote O'Shea, the founding editor, in the preface of that 1st edition, "encyclopedias are apt to be quite formal and technical.
After Guinness World Records was sold to The Jim Pattison Group, it was effectively replaced by a series of books published by Ebury Publishing/Random House with the Virgin Book of British Hit Singles first being published in 2007 and with a Hit Albums book following two years later. [93] [94] [95]
The World Almanac and Book of Facts is a US-published reference work, an almanac conveying information about such subjects as world changes, tragedies, and sports feats. It has been published yearly from 1868 to 1875, and again every year since 1886.