Discover the Mundaneum, an Early 20thCentury Internet That Put the Worlds Knowledge on Millions of Index Cards
News Source : Openculture.com
News Summary
- The Mundaneum arose out of enormous high-tech ambitions.
- The idea behind it was to gather, classify, centralize, and make universally available all human knowledge.
- The Dewey Decimal System, with its standardized card catalogs, had been around since 1876.
Pitch to friends or family the idea of a trip to Mons, Belgium to visit the Mundaneum, and you may be met with a lessthanenthusiastic reception.
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