History of index cards, part whatever
June 18th, 2008 by davidw
Kevin Kelly has a terrific piece about edge-notched cards. They’re interesting to me because I’ve been working on a piece that’s part of a piece, that may be part of some other piece that uses the history of the punch card as a way to trace the emergence of modern information. Edge-notched cards have an interesting place because the notches both indicate data and are used as a physical mechanism for sorting.
Kevin’s post was prompted by Alex Wright’s terrific article recalling Paul Otlet as a network pioneer.
