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Sociotard
Oct 1st, '07, 10:22 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet

The greatest unknown revolutionary was the Belgian Paul Otlet. In 1895 he set about freeing the information in books from their bindings. He built a universal decimal classification and then figured out how that organized data could be explored, via “links” and a “web.” In 1910 Otlet created a “radiated library” called the Mundameum in Brussels that managed search queries in a massive way until the Nazis destroyed the service.[

Watch the youtube Demo! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=qwRN5m64I7Y)

tkdguy
Oct 1st, '07, 11:40 PM
Interesting! This man was definitely ahead of his time.

Steve Long
Oct 2nd, '07, 07:14 AM
Never heard of this guy before. Tres cool!