How Belgium Nearly Invented The Internet: From 1910 they already had an analogue version of Wikipedia called the Mundaneum

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In 1910, two beardy Belgians started a project: to collect the entirety of human knowledge in one place, and make it available to everyone. It sounds a lot like the Wikipedia or Google – but unfortunately, no-one had invented web servers or home computers yet. Interestingly enough, though, in the mid-1920’s one of its inventors accurately described what the Internet could look like one day. They just did not have the technology back then.

This video explains the fascinating story about how this came about, and what happened to it. If they had the technology back then, this would have been the Google Search most would be using today.

Watch https://youtu.be/1sxUPxJsXZY

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