A "Paper Internet" Was Designed 100 Years Ago - With Search, Messaging, Hyperlinks, etc.
- added June 20, 2008
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- edmubnd
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Excerpt - "The two men set out to collect data on every book ever published, along with a vast collection of magazine and journal articles, photographs, posters and all kinds of ephemera — like pamphlets — that libraries typically ignored. Using 3 by 5 index cards (then the state of the art in storage technology), they went on to create a vast paper database with more than 12 million individual entries."
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In today's digital mindset, that is an unfathomable amount of manual work. What a project that must have been at the time ...
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In today's digital mindset, that is an unfathomable amount of manual work. What a project that must have been at the time ...
3 responses // A "Paper Internet" Was Designed 100 Years Ago - With Search, Messaging, Hyperlinks, etc.
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is this like the library of congress? i would love some info about that. i enjoy all the ways we are able to have information available 2 us these men must have had the worst case of writers cramp imaginable!
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- jenniferwilson
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I am so thankful for living in the information age...too many people take the internet for granted.
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There's an incredible book series that shows a similar happening in the late 17th century. Its by Neil Stephenson and its called The Baroque Cycle. Fantastic piece of literature, if this is interesting to you I highly recommend them!
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