https://locodigital.com.br/en/tags/internet-history/Recent content in Internet History on LocodigitalHugoen-USSun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/project-gutenberg-how-the-first-ebook-appeared-in-1971/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/project-gutenberg-how-the-first-ebook-appeared-in-1971/<p>4 July 1971. Michael Hart, a 24-year-old student at the University of Illinois, has just been given access to a Xerox Sigma V mainframe — one of the most powerful computers available at the time, connected to ARPAnet, the network that decades later would become the internet. Along with the access came a processing-time credit estimated at a hundred million dollars. What does a student do with that?</p> <p>Hart came back from the grocery store with a printed copy of the American Declaration of Independence — the one that had been tucked into his shopping bag — and spent the night typing the text into the terminal. Then he sent the file out over the network. It was the first ebook in history. It was also file number 1 of Project Gutenberg, the free digital library Hart would maintain for the next forty years.</p>https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/youtube-at-21-the-first-video-me-at-the-zoo/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/youtube-at-21-the-first-video-me-at-the-zoo/<p>Today, 23 April 2026, YouTube turns 21. Not as a registered company — that was February 2005, when the domain went live. I mean the moment the upload button was properly switched on: 23 April 2005, 8:27pm Pacific time. Jawed Karim, one of the three founders, uploaded 19 seconds of video filmed at a zoo and posted it on the internet without the faintest idea that the file would change everything.</p>