Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine: World Wide Webliographers' Revisited

Classifying the World - A Film by Francoise Levie

SCIENCE | June 17, 2008
The Web Time Forgot
By ALEX WRIGHT
The Mundaneum Museum honors the first concept of a world wide wonder, sketched out by Paul Otlet in 1934 as a global network of “electric telescopes.”...

Extract: Historians typically trace the origins of the World Wide Web through a lineage of Anglo-American inventors like Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart and Ted Nelson. But more than half a century before Tim Berners-Lee released the first Web browser in 1991, Otlet (pronounced ot-LAY) described a networked world where “anyone in his armchair would be able to contemplate the whole of creation.”...

On the same shelf:

• Documentary Film: The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World
• Blogrunner: Reactions From Around the Web
• Index Cards and Electric Telescopes

• A conceptual structure of information at the museum.
  

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