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The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web - NYTimes.com
by Decius at 11:47 pm EDT, Jun 17, 2008

In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes,” as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how people would use the devices to send messages to one another, share files and even congregate in online social networks. He called the whole thing a “réseau,” which might be translated as “network” — or arguably, “web.”

I'd never heard of this guy. Anyone got a link to the original source writings? Anyone read them before? Noteworthy?


 
RE: The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web - NYTimes.com
by noteworthy at 6:37 am EDT, Jun 19, 2008

Decius wrote:

I'd never heard of this guy. Anyone got a link to the original source writings? Anyone read them before? Noteworthy?

I haven't read any of Otlet's work.


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