March 14, 2012

Honoring and supporting Belgian Internet pioneers

Justice will be done to those with universal ideas and visions.

"Decades before the creation of the World Wide Web, Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine envisaged a paper archival system of the world's information. They built a giant international documentation centre called Mundaneum, with the goal of preserving peace by assembling knowledge and making it accessible to the entire world. For us at Google, this mission sounds familiar."

(Google | Official blog)

Posted by PJB at March 14, 2012 8:35 PM | Classification: Classics