Paper Bits

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Posts tagged archive

Jan 16

lavacheestdanslepre:

The Mundaneum, an institution created in 1910 by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, aimed to gather together all the world’s knowledge. An Archive with more than 12 million index cards, some consider it a forerunner of the internet. Otlet dreamt that one day all the information he collected could be accessed by people from the comfort of their own homes.’

The Mundaneum is utterly fascinating to me, for reasons that should be obvious…

The Mundaneum, an institution created in 1910 by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, aimed to gather together all the world’s knowledge. An Archive with more than 12 million index cards, some consider it a forerunner of the internet. Otlet dreamt that one day all the information he collected could be accessed by people from the comfort of their own homes.’

The Mundaneum is utterly fascinating to me, for reasons that should be obvious…

Jan 23

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Well, they have amongst many, thousands, perhaps millions of artefacts, thousands of paper decrypts. The decrypts of messages sent by the Germans, some possibly from Hitler himself, during the war.

Bletchley Park need help to catalogue and create a proper archive of these decrypts. They also have many other needs which, if you are interested in history, im sure you will want to help with.

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Bletchley Park and History Hackday Request | Amplified

(via iamdanw)