Digital librarianship—the digitization, collection, and cataloguing of texts—was one of the earliest uses of networked computers. By most accounts, the first digital library was Project Gutenberg, which began making public domain works available in 1971 via the Arpanet, the ...
  • Universal MonkOPEnglish
    4•2 months ago

    Thank you. I just finished up researching it since I didn’t now what it was. And I never heard of the project before, so very cool little thought experiment!

    Caution: Don’t put in your date of death. I did. I typed in “The date of <UniveralMonk’s> death is” and then took the gibberish word that was after that and put into ai to turn it into a date using numbers of alphabet, etc.

    My death is set for May 10, 2025.

    I was very unhappy with this knowledge. Then realized that every possible variation of the wrong date (include every single date in the world ever) would be listed as well as a correct one. So whew! (I hope!)

      • Universal MonkOPEnglish
        4•2 months ago

        Haha thats a funny thing, I strongly hope to see you around in a month!

        Thanks. If I die, I’ll still be sure to shitpost from wherever I am. I promise!