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Paul Otlet, visioning a web in 1934
Attila Gárdos
A one-minute clip about Paul Otlet, the Belgian bibliographer who in 1934 imagined users accessing a remote database through an electric telescope over a phone line. It presents his vision as a precursor of the web.
Brought up whenever early predictions of the internet and the web's origins are discussed.
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