Paul Otlet and Tim Berners Lee are two names that can’t be ignored when we talk about the internet and how it came to be. Paul Otlet is the Father of thought of Internet, and Berners is THE Father of Internet. Both play a critical role in the inculcation of the idea of internet and its evolution. Interestingly Berners who proposed the idea of Internet in 1990 wasn’t directly inspired by Otlet but by an American Engineer Vannnevar Bush.

Like the Mundaneum in Brussels, the Internet can be considered a virtual manifestation of it, with the precise goal of cataloging the world. To become a virtual aggregator of knowledge with the major difference between the internet and the Mundaneum being, making the internet easily accessible from anywhere in the world. As in a library, cataloging is done on paper, similarly Berners’ proposition fo the Web was Universal Resource Aggregator (URL).

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