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Paul Otlet's 1934 Vision of a Web-Like Information Network

Attila Gárdos · Explainer · 1 min · 2008 · YouTube title: Paul Otlet, visioning a web in 1934
Why it's here

Brought up whenever early predictions of the internet and the web's origins are discussed.

What it covers

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.