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    Episode 107 - The Mundaneum, Part I

    Advent of Computing · May 7, 2023 · 1 h 06 min
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    The Internet is the closest we've come to a universal store of all human knowledge. However, it's not the first pass at this lofty goal. In this episode(and the next) we are looking at the Mundaneum, a project started in the 1890s to address the information problem. How is it connected to the larger story of hypertext? And how can this older project inform our views on the information problem?…

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