Where the web comes from
Where the ideas came from, and who imagined what we now take for granted.
Notes I took over the years as a web designer.
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A search engine made of paper
Paul Otlet built one in 1895, out of index cards
In 1895 Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine started writing down, on standard cards, every book and article they could find. Not a library — a library holds the things it owns. This was meant to be an index of everything…
Where the web comes from