Mundaneum

The Mundaneum was an ambitious early 20th-century project aimed at collecting and organizing all of human knowledge in a centralized catalog. Founded by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine in Belgium, it sought to create a universal repository of information accessible to everyone. Often called a precursor to the internet, the Mundaneum used indexing systems and catalogs to connect ideas and data, promoting global knowledge sharing and research. Although it wasn't commercially successful, it laid important groundwork for information science and the digital information age.