The Gutenberg Project

By Deane Barker • •
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This post has nothing to do with the content of this blog anymore. I was tempted to archive it when I purged thousands of other posts, but it’s the very first blog post I ever wrote, so I keep it out of pure sentimentality.

The Gutenberg Project has been around since the Internet was very, very young – the Web wasn’t even born yet. It’s an effort to catalog as many free books and texts as possible. Gutenberg has thousands of books from hundreds of authors; all in the public domain, all free. Download, print, and enjoy.

I’m reading “Collective Knowledge: Intranets, Productivity, and the Promise of the Knowledge Workplace” by Robert Marcus and Beverley Watters and I ran across the origin of the Gutenberg name:

Johannes Gutenberg is given the credit for […] the invention of printing with movable type and for the concept of unlimited reproduction. His first work, known as the Gutenberg Bible, was a 42-line […] bible that appeared about 1456.

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I’ve since read an entire book about Gutenberg: The Gutenberg Revolution. Reading the above post 24 years later, it amazes me a little that I once didn’t know who Gutenberg was.

↓ Inbound link from – Words, Links, and Centrality: Evaluating 17 Years of Gadgetopia Content April 1, 2019

What do you do when you have too much content to review?

↓ Inbound link from – Where’s the Line Between the Web and Your CMS? September 17, 2025

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about a stupid thing I did with redirects once. My friend Andy Cohen reposted it on LinkedIn, and, among other things, said this : Redirects don’t belong in the CMS layer I’m inclined to agree. I think a CMS can be a source for redirect data , but I’m coming to believe…

↑ Outbound link to – The Gutenberg Revolution April 30, 2017

I love the subject but just couldn’t connect with the writing style. I found it confusing. Not an entirely bad book – it presents Gutenberg as a businessman (and not a very good one), and covers all the religious and political conflict in Mainz, Germany that helped the printing revolution along….