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 - [ Ссылка ]
TWIT - [ Ссылка ]
FACE - [ Ссылка ]

FURTHER INFO

"The web that time forgot", New York Times - [ Ссылка ]

"Mundaneum: the Belgian archive that anticipated the internet" - The Independent - [ Ссылка ]

PHOTO CREDITS

Palais du Cinquaintenaire Panorama by Redvers - [ Ссылка ]

Parc du Cinquantenaire photo by Ben2 - [ Ссылка ]

Vint Cerf by Duncan Hull / The Royal Society - [ Ссылка ]

Bob Kahn by Veni Markovski - [ Ссылка ]

The Internet by Martin Deutsch - [ Ссылка ]

Bakelite telephone by digitalmuseum.se - [ Ссылка ]

Gramophone by Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci" | Alessandro Nassiri - [ Ссылка ]

Early 50s TV set by John Atherton - [ Ссылка ]

Bob Taylor by Gardner Campbell - [ Ссылка ]

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