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Proto-Web in 1934

MIT Advertising Lab (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008

An article in NY Times about a Belgian inventor Paul Otlet who in 1930s created a proto-Web that "relied on a patchwork of analog technologies like index cards and telegraph machines": "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,...

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The Mundaneum - the forgotten precursor to the internet

Keys Corner (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008

Short video illustrating some of Otlet’s ideas Paul Otlet (1868 – 1944) proposed many of the ideas which have been implemented in the world wide web – including the idea of a library of information much like Wikipedia – and actually implemented his ideas in the form of the Mundaneum, back in 1910. The Mundaneum, occupying [...]