History of Computers and Computing, Internet, Dreamers

The Dreamers and the Godfathers

In this section I’ll present some people, who had a vision of or defined some aspects or features of communication networks, Internet and WWW, several decades (or even centuries) before their actual implementing as a global communication network of knowledge:

Robert Hooke	Claude Chappe
Jules Verne	Paul Otlet
Mark Twain	Nikola Tesla
Herbert Wells	Wilhelm Ostwald
Emanuel Goldberg	George Stibitz
Vannevar Bush	Murray Leinster
Jorge Luis Borges