Ivan Horvat · 2019-03-13 02:22
This is doing my head in, I vaguely remember reading an article and Wikipedia page about a French or German inventor who had proposed an electromechanical version of the Internet in Edwardian times, which would allow a user to read books from an automated library across the country.
His work was interrupted by WW1, then stopped altogether by WW2.
Did I first see a reference to him here?
Dujour · 2019-03-13 15:01
>>16135
The closest person I can think of is Vannevar Bush, but he's American.
Eldon Tyrell · 2019-03-14 19:23
I remember some discussion on this. The person in question had theorized a sort of long-distance library that could be used as a kind of proto-wikipedia. Can't remember the details, though.
Netrunner · 2019-03-15 18:01
You were likely thinking of Paul Otlet.
fsociety · 2019-03-16 07:09
>>16172
Yes! That's the one.
Of course, now I can't remember why I was trying to remember him, but thank you.