Keith Thomas · Diary: Working Methods↗
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In 1895, a Belgian lawyer, bibliographer and information scientist named Paul Otlet started building what he would call the Mundaneum: a vast repository in Brussels containing over 12 million index cards cross-referenced by subject, designed to hold the entirety of human knowledge. Otlet had already predicted hyperlinks, search engines, and