Paul Otlet, visioning a web in 1934

Paul Otlet, a Belgian bibliographer, pacifist and entrepreneur imagined a day when users would access the database from great distances by means of an "electric telescope" connected through a telephone line, retrieving a facsimile image to be projected remotely on a flat screen.

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[Alexandre Setter]

Great, thanks for sharing!

[merethan]

If you ask me, internet is the greatest invention of all time, after the toilet.

This world lacks visionaries like this guy these day's.

[Ralph Dratman]

What Gore actually said was, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”

This statement is true. Up to that time, there had been no such thing as "the internet." There was a government-sponsored, government-funded project called "Arpanet". Gore turned that over to private enterprise, and called it "Internet." From the legal and financial perspective, he did bring it into being.

And isn't privatization what right wingers dearly love?

[sythead]

Coming up wih an idea, and making it work, is somthing else!

[Davide888]

Eerie

[Bart doet er nie toe]

Go Belgium!

The good ol days

[sebastianconcept]

one of my heroes (along with Tesla)

[Perktube1]

Them new kids and their fancy radiated library thingamajig..Why back in my day we traveled through the snow five miles up hill just to check out a book, and then traveled through snow five miles uphill back to home!

[Carl Solovox]

Thanks for the GOP talking points.

[Ronald Westerbeek]

Het duurde maar vijftig jaar voor deze ideeen uitvoerbaar werden..... worden vervolgd, maar nog sneller... !

[Maliheh Banoo]

Al Gore invented the internet , not this right winger.

[Nataly Didenko]

А интернет-то изобрели аж в 1934 году science.compulenta.ru/685240/