How Belgium Nearly Invented The Internet In 1910
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 like they wanted to create Wikipedia or Google - but unfortunately, no-one had invented web servers or home computers yet. So instead, they ended up making the world's greatest filing cabinet. I travelled to the city of Mons to see the beast for myself, and find out more about its incredible story... INSTA - / the.tim.traveller TWIT - / thetimtraveller FACE - / thetimtraveller FURTHER INFO "The web that time forgot", New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/he... "Mundaneum: the Belgian archive that anticipated the internet" - The Independent - https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/... PHOTO CREDITS Palais du Cinquaintenaire Panorama by Redvers - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Parc du Cinquantenaire photo by Ben2 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Vint Cerf by Duncan Hull / The Royal Society - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... Bob Kahn by Veni Markovski - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... The Internet by Martin Deutsch - https://www.flickr.com/photos/teflon/... Bakelite telephone by digitalmuseum.se - https://digitaltmuseum.se/01102497926... Gramophone by Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci" | Alessandro Nassiri - https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Victor_Ta... Early 50s TV set by John Atherton - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gbaku/2... Bob Taylor by Gardner Campbell - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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