Alex Wright discusses the history of the world wide web including precursors and proposed alternatives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8
H.G. Wells in the 1930s wrote an essay about a global brain where recorded information would become increasingly connected and a new kind of intelligence would emerge, "networked encyclopedia".
Teilhard de Chardin talked of unfettered access to information. Marshall McLuhan, who coined the term "global village", was one of Chardin's students.
Paul Otlet founded an institution in Belgium which attempted to liberate information inside of books using index cards. Tracked usage which became part of the cataloged record in order to relate one document to another. Global information warehouse.
Also covers Eugene Garfield who inspired the idea of page ranking.
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