Thursday, June 19th, 2008
A museum has opened in Mons, Belgium, with an exhibit to internet pioneer Paul Otlet.
No, I haven’t heard of him, either.
Although, after reading about him, he seems like one of the most brilliant minds of the past 100 years - and one of the nuttiest.
In short, he proposed the Internet as we know it - and Wikipedia - and begun to develop his ideas into a feasible system. Except he started work in 1934 - a damn site earlier than Tim Berners-Lee and his pals started putting together the modern Internet.
