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No, but we had done a pretty good job of storing and indexing it all on this thing called the Internet.
by threetonesun 1y ago
No, but we had done a pretty good job of storing and indexing it all on this thing called the Internet.
- matt123456789 1y agoAnd for the same purpose before that we had, or rather have, since it is still very much in use today, the Dewey Decimal System. Peering further onward still into the annals of library science, one can find even more creative and revealing methods of indexing human knowledge. In doing so, one might even be inclined to believe that the state of the science has come so far as to be considered solved. Alas.
- threetonesun 1y agoI think if you went to the library and asked for information on "how to build a chicken coop" and the librarian took 60 books related to chickens and building and farming, cut up the words in them, then arranged them in a way they found satisfying, you might start going to a different library.