Somehow I had envisioned the Net in my mind very much
as it would become 30 years later.
I envisioned sending the Declaration of Independence to
everyone on the Net. . .all 100 of them. . .which would have
crashed the whole thing, but luckily Fred Ranck stopped me,
and we just posted a notice in what would later become
comp.gen
I think about 6 out of the 100 users at the time downloaded
it. . . .
Q. Between 1971 and 1993 you produced 100 e-texts. And then,
in less than 9 years, an additional few thousand. What
happened?
A. People rarely understand the power of doubling something
every so often.
In 1991 we were doing one e-Book per month. This was totally
revolutionary at the time. People kept predicting that we
couldn't continue, but we were planning on doubling production
every year, which we did for most years. We are now adding 200
e-texts a month.
Q. Can you give us some current download statistics?
A. As for stats, this is pretty much impossible since we don't
directly control any but one or two of what I presume are
hundreds of sites around the world that have our files up for
download.
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