The First Internet Hero Was Paul Otlet and His Steampunk Wikipedia. In 1895, a Belgian internationalist began building the world's richest...
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Google marked the birthday this weekend of Paul Otlet, the Belgian visionary who tried to build an Internet out of paper.
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Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Below is an excerpt from a...
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Vannevar Bush's 1945 essay on a Memex device anticipated the Web. Or so they say. Enter Paul Otlet, who explored "electric telescopes" in...
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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...
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He dreamed of a "mechanical, collective brain" and his complex system for indexing information could be considered an analog version of...
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Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Professor of Mediated Culture at Culture and Society, Linköping University, has been awarded the 2015-16 Paul Otlet...
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In 1934, a little-known Belgian thinker published plans for a global network that could have changed everything.
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The Mundaneum is more than an antiquated indexing system. It's an ahead-of-its-time testament to the power of information.
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As you might expect for a technology so expansive and ever-changing, it is impossible to credit the invention of the internet to a single...
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