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Originally Posted by JSWolf
That would be 2000. Microsoft Lit was the precursor to ePub2.
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No,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_eBook OEBPS = essentially epub1 1998. There was even a dedicated (LCD based) ereader.
Microsoft LIT files for Microsoft Reader are simply an extension of the CHM file format, and thus use LZX compression, but with DRM.
More here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Reader
The LIT format was / is proprietary. The OEBPS (really epub1) was open sourced before LIT existed. LIT was maybe better than mobi as a format (but I'm not sure), but it was a proprietary disaster.
There is no relationship between epub, LIT and mobi other than they all used HTML in some fashion and were for ebooks.
The epub2 is directly developed from OEBPS, though there is no actual epub1.
Sadly the Web standard people took over epub2.