“The Mundaneum, created in 1910 by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, was a vast archive of more than twelve million bibliographic three-by-five-inch index cards, which attempted to catalog and cross-reference the relationships among all the world’s published information…. Paul Otlet was the first to imagine all the world’s knowledge as one vast “web,” connected by “links” and accessed remotely through desktop screens, and because of this he can be seen as the kooky grandfather of the Internet.”—Molly Springfield, on Snail-mail Google and a card-catalog Web, in “Inside the Mundaneum,” in Triple Canopy.
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“The Mundaneum, created in 1910 by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, was a vast archive of more than twelve million bibliographic three-by-five-inch index cards, which attempted to catalog and cross-reference the relationships among all the world’s published information…. Paul Otlet was the first to imagine all the world’s knowledge as one vast “web,” connected by “links” and accessed remotely through desktop screens, and because of this he can be seen as the kooky grandfather of the Internet.”—Molly Springfield, on Snail-mail Google and a card-catalog Web, in “Inside the Mundaneum,” in Triple Canopy.

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