(auto): Alex Wright has written an introduction to the work of Paul Otlet, who I had never heard of. He anticipated the Web, devised the Universal Decimal Classification (the Dewey Decimal system on steroids), and tried to build what was essentially a search engine on 3<span class="times">×</span>5 cards.

Paul Otlet

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