
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 |