The Camelot Project

In 1991, John Warnock (Adobe co-founder) wrote a paper outlining a system to make documents viewable on any computer. He called it "Camelot". This became the PDF.

Why it won

Before PDF, sharing documents was a nightmare. If you didn't have the same fonts installed as the sender, the document looked like garbage. PDF embedded the fonts inside the file.

Today, billions of PDFs are created every day, and tools like Docorio keep the format accessible to everyone.