Incredible story... According to the New York Times, "In 1934, Paul Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or 'electric telescopes,' as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files." Better look at this... (If you need a login for the NYT - user: shellcity, pw: shellcity) .....(free).....