"While the popular history of the internet valorises Silicon Valley coders – or, sometimes, the former US vice president Al Gore – many of the original concepts for search emerged from library scientists focused on the accessibility of documents in time and space."
The 1970s librarians who revolutionised the challenge of search | Aeon Essays
A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it
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