1944: His dream of a global interlinked “web” of documents lying in ruins, information-science pioneer Paul Otlet dies.
The Belgian bibliographer’s grand scheme to organize the world’s information made him the aspiring Google of his day, but his sprawling card catalog and decimal classification system proved woefully inadequate to the task.
Some historians see in Otlet’s [...]
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Dec. 10, 1944: Web Visionary Passes Into Obscurity
December 10th, 2009 |
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Nov. 6, 1944 & 1971: A Double Nuke Anniversary
November 6th, 2009 |
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1944: Weapons-grade plutonium, for the very heart of the Fat Man atomic bomb used to obliterate Nagasaki, Japan, is first produced at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south-central Washington state. Twenty-seven years later, in 1971, the Atomic Energy Commission detonates the largest U.S. underground hydrogen device, during testing in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.
The development of weapons-grade [...]