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 |