I had to resist the temptation to put this onto my other blog… its so far away from its intended subject matter and unprofitable that this would probably sound its death knell, so I thought better of it.
A neighour of mine claims to be an entrepreneur, and part of a group of thinkers that formulated a “fore-runner of the internet”. I’ve met a few people like this. Usually wealthy people that could have been contenders. But are now past prime
Here on the other hand is an article describing Paul Otlet, who in 1934 conceptualised a “reseau” or network. It also has a quote from Kevin Kelly, former editor of Wired, who I came across recently in connection with steampunk. But thats a whole ‘nother story…

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