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The document provides a timeline of major events related to crowdsourcing from 1714 to 2009. Some highlights include: in 1714 the British government offered a prize for measuring longitude at sea; in 1848 Matthew Fontaine Maury distributed ship logs to gather wind and current data; in 1984 volunteers began cataloguing words for the Oxford English Dictionary; and in 2006 Jeff Howe coined the term "crowdsourcing" in Wired magazine to describe the act of outsourcing tasks to an undefined public.
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