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i have a vivid memory of reading this after kevin kelly (or possibly gary wolf) called this "the ur-document of the internet"
by beaugunderson 3y ago
i have a vivid memory of reading this after kevin kelly (or possibly gary wolf) called this "the ur-document of the internet"
- dredmorbius 3y agoThere are other antecedents. H.G. Wells, "The World Brain": <https://archive.org/details/worldbrain00wells https://archive.org/details/worldbrain00wells> Paul Otlet's Mandeneum: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundaneum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundaneum> <https://daily.jstor.org/internet-before-internet-paul-otlet/ https://daily.jstor.org/internet-before-internet-paul-otlet/> <https://web.archive.org/web/20051227195507/http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~wrayward/otlet/otletpage.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20051227195507/http://people.lis...> Generally, the Encyclopédistes, most especially Denis Diderot. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die>