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How Belgium Nearly Invented The Internet In 1910

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In 1910, two beardy Belgians started a project: to collect the entirety of human knowledge in one place, and make it available to everyone. It sounds like they wanted to create Wikipedia or Google - but unfortunately, no-one had invented web servers or home computers yet. So instead, they ended up making the world's greatest filing cabinet. I travelled to the city of Mons to see the beast for myself, and find out more about its incredible story...
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FURTHER INFO
"The web that time forgot", New York Times - www.nytimes.co...
"Mundaneum: the Belgian archive that anticipated the internet" - The Independent - www.independen...
PHOTO CREDITS
Palais du Cinquaintenaire Panorama by Redvers - commons.wikime...
Parc du Cinquantenaire photo by Ben2 - commons.wikime...
Vint Cerf by Duncan Hull / The Royal Society - upload.wikimed...
Bob Kahn by Veni Markovski - commons.wikime...
The Internet by Martin Deutsch - www.flickr.com...
Bakelite telephone by digitalmuseum.se - digitaltmuseum...
Gramophone by Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci" | Alessandro Nassiri - www.wikiwand.c...
Early 50s TV set by John Atherton - www.flickr.com...
Bob Taylor by Gardner Campbell - commons.wikime...

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@iancl9955 Год назад

Given the name “munduneum” the term “world wide web” is probably even more in line with their project than “internet”.

@Rob2 Год назад

It seems like most people do not understand the difference between "the world wide web" and "the internet", and apparently even some of the original inventors have given up on making that clear.

@57thorns Год назад

@@Rob2 Just go with it. It is the same as hacking (which btw is really just "bodging together", especially using timber). And secretly feel superior because you do know the difference between internet, www, http, tcp/ip and wikipedia.

@pieter7319 Год назад

And then to know that that name, www, was co-invented by a Belgian too, namely Robert Cailliau. Ooh what a quirky little country we are! 😊

@RubenKelevra Год назад

It's mundaneum not munduneum.

@Rob2 Год назад

@@pieter7319 It is sometimes stated that WiFi was invented here in the Netherlands, at a research office of NCR nearby where I live. It can be debated, but certainly the group within NCR that created a wireless network for their cash register equipment and established the first WiFi standard worked from there.

@YeeSoest Год назад

Buddy, everything from the rick roll to the play button for inventing RU-vid is PURE AND UTTER GOLD !

@walterh2113 Год назад

I also loved the "The Internet" box from the IT Crowd

@666Tomato666 Год назад

And the song "The internet is for "

@graemeporter Год назад

@@walterh2113 with the IT Crowd theme music being played on the piano in the background to Tim's voiceover while the box is on-screen.

@sjmelnikoff Год назад

And the theme from Tomorrow’s World! That’s quite obscure these days.

@kbtred51 Год назад

And the Location Location Location accompaniment to being relocated

@Kuro_Reaper Год назад

This is the only channel that makes me want to travel abroad just to visit a Filing Cabinet. XD

@mm-qd1ho Год назад

😂 I'm picturing myself explaining this surprise to my kids, when they were expecting Disneyland Paris

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад

You must not have heard of the world's tallest filing cabinet in Vermont.

@Zraknul Год назад

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Sounds dangerous

@mark9294 Год назад

or Belgium for that matter

@Hal10034 Год назад

I'm an academic librarian and I am so glad that you made this video. It's a really clear introduction to Otlet's work. My former chief librarian, who died in his 40s, had a special interest in Otlet and the Mundaneum. You did him proud.

@Wheeze_NL Год назад

Great choice of piano-music Tim, you are a genius. I don't know what it says about me that I recognized it the first second. The internet is really, really great!

@brendandenney Год назад

Same, after the first few bars of the song I caught it then the timing was spot on.

@Wheeze_NL Год назад

@@brendandenney Glad I am not the only one. I did look through the comments to see if someone else had mentioned it before, and was very surprised I seemed to be the first.

@57thorns Год назад

Tim does that all the time, I am just happy if I can catch it, and I did it this time.

@Wheeze_NL Год назад

I know, but this time it was in my area of "expertise" and was happy to catch a lot of them

@Grisu1805 Год назад

It says about you that you have a healthy interest in Broadway musicals and pop culture. 😁😇

@kristofdewulf26 Год назад

I was today years old when I learned about this magical cabinet located about 30 minutes from where I live. Thanks!

@ariadnavigo Год назад

NOOO, "The IT Crowd" theme on piano *killed me* 😂

@socialvideoplaza Год назад

I didn't catch that, but the box with "the internet" as a background I did!

@Wheeze_NL Год назад

I wasn't awake enough during my first watch (had to rewatch to catch all the easter eggs) I did recognize "The internet is for P***" way to Quick

@roderickmain9697 Год назад

Brilliant find, Tim. As a former Software Engineer who used a connection to the ARPAnet in 1977 from the UK, I feel I should pay it a visit sometime. Checking out the roots of my career.

@ADAMEDWARDS17 Год назад

As a librarian old enough to have filed catalogue cards, this was fascinating. As a trainee I was allowed to place the card in the correct location, but not to pull the rod out which then secured them in place. That was a professional librarian's job as once a card goes in the wrong place it's lost for ever. Thank goodness the internet replaced all that!

@Anonymous-df8it Год назад

Why forever?

@wolfgangmcq Год назад

@@Anonymous-df8it Nobody has any idea where to look for it any more.

@Anonymous-df8it Год назад

@@wolfgangmcq What's a catalogue card?

@ADAMEDWARDS17 Год назад

@@Anonymous-df8it Be grateful they are long gone from libraries. In ye olden days (up to approx 1990) each book had cards in a drawers like the ones in Tim's video. So you had to look for the card by author(s) or by subject, find the shelf number and then go to the shelf hoping the book would be there. As you can imagine it was all very labour intensive and inefficient. Online catalogues got rid of them.

@ADAMEDWARDS17 Год назад

@@Anonymous-df8it As if the card went in the wrong place it would be very difficult to find to remove it other than by searching through thousands of cards.

@HE-162 Год назад

As a document and paperwork collector, the notion that there once existed, and still to a lesser degree, a massive filing cabinet full of cards with information on *everything*…it’s a weird mix of arousal and sadness and jealousy 😂

@garage6346 Год назад

Instant thumbs up for the IT Crowd reference. 😂

@JimmyConwayDE Год назад

Came here for this comment

@brittnar Год назад

It was driving me batty what that piano jingle was, on the tip of my tongue

@garage6346 Год назад

... and the blurred picture 😆

@brittnar Год назад

@@garage6346 I just rewatched the opening. Perfect!

@romainsavioz5466 Год назад

@@garage6346 football friend

@sanashi27 Год назад

This is amazing! I've heard of jokes about what the internet would look like in real life and now I find out an actual one existed long before the internet itself had been created. I think it's pretty cool how much hard work they must've done to make the entire thing. The fact that one of the men was able to predict the internet is amazing, too. It's too bad most of it got destroyed though. Thanks for sharing this story with us! It's nice to know about something this interesting that I might've not known otherwise.

@texaco2735 Год назад

The way you always, without fail, mention accessibility to the wacky places you find warms my heart

@Anthestudios Год назад

As a Belgian, I'm so happy you covered the Mondaneum and Mondothèque! It's definitely a story worth telling, and it's fascinating to see what these two were thinking about so early in history. Can't wait for the Netflix adaptation of their life stories :-).

@The-Cat Год назад

Wont happen because it doesn't involve sex, gender crap or female empowerment motives

@r.a.h7682 Год назад

as a belgian? lol nobody says that, youre wallonian or from flanders.

@The-Cat Год назад

@@r.a.h7682 Nope I identify myself as a Belgian just like everyone else of my friends family and collegues. Our football team the Red devils are a Belgian team, we wave our Belgian flags on international events and we sell BELGIAN beer and BELGIAN choclates with the world not "Flemish" or "Wallonian"

@thomasherrin6798 Год назад

Don't hold your breath!?!

@sonjaverlinden7993 29 дней назад

@@r.a.h7682 Belgium if you please. Thank you .

@souptime8635 Год назад

If you ever experience slow internet, you can blame the Belgians for never getting things done

@thestrum71 Год назад

That's our politicians you're talking about, not us mere mortal Belgians.... :)

@officialzelensky Год назад

Just the shitty government and our population voting stupidly

@hedgehog3180 Год назад

When you're internet is slow it's actually because the packets are being routed through Belgium and because of waffle-iron politics they have to be equally split between Flanders and Wallonia.

@nielsdebakker3283 Год назад

@@hedgehog3180 In short, belgian post services. Also explained that your computer is fried after a short circuit. (and potato cameras) ps. all to be taken with a grain of salt. ;)

@Howardfh Год назад

Think the Belgians went six months without a government, and prospered...

@NotAMinifig Год назад

There's another Belgian involved in the history of the internet: Robert Cailliau worked together with Tim Berners-Lee on the WWW (and he designed the 1st WWW logo)

@TheEstampe Год назад

Indeed. Surprisingly the English Wikipedia page about the World Wide Web only mentions Robert Cailliau as the designer of the first WWW logo while the French page clearly states that Cailliau's involvement was substantial. There is a page about Robert Cailliau though.

@jsquared1013 Год назад

@@TheEstampe sounds like someone who speaks both should edit the English one to update it 😁 (I can't because I don't speak French)

@cdemr Год назад

I love how you always manage to find topics I had never heard of from my region (southern Belgium) despite me living here my entire life.

@srtgrayfrance Год назад

As you say, this is the progenitor of Wikipedia. For a true precursor to the Internet you have to look at medieval monasteries. These were centres of learning and research (many formed the great Universities of Europe), linked by fast and reliable (for the time) communication networks, often duplicating knowledge to avoid it being lost in the case of one monastery (or node) being destroyed by hostile actions.

@rin_etoware_2989 Год назад

if you're counting something as crude as that as the internet, then Ashurbanipal's library also counts

@eekee6034 7 месяцев назад

@@rin_etoware_2989 Preserving and distributing knowledge is amongst humanity's most ancient traditions. Mocking their efforts is very modern and never as clever as the ridiculers seem to think.

@bren106 Год назад

Even M. Otlet got rickrolled on his internet.

@jonaw.2153 Год назад

Mon Dieu, I'm Belgian and I never knew about this! Now I have a reason to do the unthinkable and visit Wallonia!

@RedRocketthefirst Год назад

I hope you will survive 07

@barvdw Год назад

it's a rather nice historic city centre with lots of beautifully restored old buildings, you have to give it to Di Rupo, he knew/knows how to get invstments in his city. The station (massively over budget and overdue) is almost finished now, and while I still miss the old one and think the new one was not necessary, Calatrava knows how to design something imaginative. There's the PASS, similarly to Technopolis, There's Le Grand Hornu, a former mining complex from the 19th century, the Belfry tower, city hall and collegiate church St Waudru, just to name a few highlights. And of course, Dour with the biggest music festival in the southern part of Belgium, is a stone throw away.

@jonaw.2153 Год назад

@@barvdw this convinced me. I shall brave the journey

@yagi3925 Год назад

Bezoek eens "Karelkoning" ;-) aka Charleroi, mijn dierbare geboortestad. De beste locale gids is Nicolas Buissart - en geloof het of niet, hij spreekt NL (sort of, tenminste) 😁

@barvdw Год назад

@@yagi3925 je hebt wel een goede gids nodig, vrees ik, om niet een beetje teneergeslagen te raken na zo'n treurtrip™. En in tegenstelling tot Mons slaagt Charleroi er veel minder in om z'n centrum opgefrist te krijgen, het blijft vrij verloederd. Mensen zijn er wel erg vriendelijk.

@Tomtycoon Год назад

I learn more from my own country with one of your videos, than with a year of watching Belgian TV.

@IslandInteractions Год назад

If Otlet & La Fontaine were the grandfathers of the WWW (& your wonderful video certainly highlights this, Tim!), then Conrad Gessner (1516-1565) was the great-great-great-etc-etc-father of indexing information. In 1548-49 he issued the first subject index - the Pandectarum. It was meant as a key to his overview of all printed works in Latin, Hebrew and Greek, the Bibliotheca Universalis from 1545. You should pop over here to Zurich to do a video on Gessner. Or Scheuchzer. Or the other Gessner 😀

@Djarra Год назад

Jonathan Medes once commented “Magritte was a realist, it’s Belgium that’s surreal.”

@PopeLando Год назад

"It's a 15 minute walk from the railway station, itself an hour south of Brussels." Me in Essex: "Ohhh, Hainaut!"

@rynabuns Год назад

via Newbury Park!

@katrinabryce Год назад

It is in "Hainaut" [no l], not "Hainault via Newbury Park" 😉

@lukas_drescher Год назад

3:47 Quite ironic, how they cleared out half the space for a trade fair. That's like today, when half your screen is covered by ads and the other half contains the information you're actually looking for.

@Komiksulo Год назад

Not only that, but it was a trade fair featuring rubber. *cough* Belgian Congo *cough*

@qqleq Год назад

With Tom Scott @TomScottGo looking for interesting subjects and asking the entire Internet for them, you still managed to com up with a video on this AMAZING subject before him! All new to me. Still hope that Tom will make a video about it, would love to see the different approaches. Like Tom would probably explain more how the system worked, how you would find the information you were looking for. Curious about that now!

@mfaizsyahmi Год назад

The francophone side of Europe is safely Tim's turf. Tom can cover the other places.

@worldtraveler930 Год назад

Let's face facts Tom does not have Tim style!! 🤠👍

@hedgehog3180 Год назад

@@mfaizsyahmi It's like the Treaty of Tordesillas but for youtubers.

@laurencefraser Год назад

@@worldtraveler930 To be fair, the reverse is also true.

@Wheeze_NL Год назад

I am so glad that all the mentioned creative people know each other, and work together just enough to surprise us! Like with Jay Foreman's videos.

@threeparots1 Год назад

Great video. Loved the IT crowd reference.

@miguelplano2538 Год назад

I always love how Tim can present a random topic on something I never thought I would find interesting and keep me on the edge of my seat wanting for more. Thank you Tim!

@Orforio Год назад

I just love your background music jokes, this episode's nod to Avenue Q was my favourite!

@MaistrePathelin Год назад

Great video. Fun fact: the team that devised the WWW had a Belgian member :)

@Stephen_Lafferty Год назад

Thank you for this fascinating and amusing documentary, Tim! I had no idea that the core ideas of what has become the web were outlined as a framework in Belgium. Thank you for your efforts in making this to enlighten both me and many others!

@raedwulf61 Год назад

I should try the Internet. All the cool kids are talking about it.

@renakunisaki Год назад

Just say no to peer pressure!

@autohmae Год назад

@@renakunisaki but say yes to peering agreements.

@flp322 Год назад

This is easily the most interesting topic you’ve covered yet. I have a degree in computer science, but they never told me about curious pieces of history like this. Thanks for telling this story, Tim.

@firdausariff Год назад

Computer science graduate here as well. These two grandfathers were never mentioned in the text book. Only Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee.

@hairyairey Год назад

Agreed never came up in my Mathematics and Computer Science degree either.

@gammaphonic Год назад

In regards to inventing the internet, it’s less a case of who should be given credit than it is who should be held responsible.

@riptidemonzarc3103 Год назад

What did Kaiser Bill know that we didn't?

@JohnnyAngel8 Год назад

Maybe the Belgian government knew better about access to too much information! ;-)

@bmsp6880 Год назад

Thank you for always mentioning the accessibility of the places you go. as a wheelchair user I really appreciate it.

@thomaschurchill6957 Год назад

Fantastic video Tim! I think this may be my favourite one yet

@socialvideoplaza Год назад

Hi Tim, what a great video. It's an art to make a dull topic like a big filing cabinet fun and intriguing. My compliments! respect!

@dontspikemydrink9382 Год назад

you find filing cabinets dull?

@rdear Год назад

Loved the IT Crowd theme!!

@vaclav_fejt Год назад

Your soundtracks are always full of surprises...an Advent calendar, you could say. Love it.

@Kevin-lw2gl 4 месяца назад

Currently reading the book Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age. So far it's made me appreciate libraries a lot more. Thanks for this video!

@FutureCatNZ Год назад

There are very few people on RU-vid where I see that a video is about filling cabinets and think "this will be interesting" 😅 And I wasn't disappointed - it was!

@Frank-om4fc Год назад

Yet another informative and interesting upload ...thanks Tim keep it up!

@MichelFortin898 Год назад

Toujours très bon Tim ! Maintenant, lorsqu'un theme musical au piano débute, je tente toujours de deviner de quoi il s'agit; tu as planté tellement d'oeufs de Pâques dans les videos passés que je ne veux pas en manquer un!

@mammouth2727 Год назад

Ça me fait penser à la musique du générique de IT Crowd

@yukimoe Год назад

@@mammouth2727 C'est justement ça la référence, avec en background la fameuse boîte noire qui contient l'entièreté de l'Internet présentée dans l'un des épisodes :)

@NoNameForNone Год назад

As a non-Frenchman who can read some French, I was completely off guard by the "d'oeufs de Pâques", which I'd had to look up. (and so the rabbit hole goes)

@MichelFortin898 Год назад

@@NoNameForNone Hahaha! Being a bilingual Canadian, I tried my best to translate the well known "Easter Egg" calling of clever surprises hidden within artist's creations. I might have invented the french equivalent in fact! Reverting back to Tim, I adore the fact that he is a francophile brit living in France and that there seems to be an association/friendship/brotherhood of co-YT creators Geoff Marshal and Jay Foreman.

@ricmacas Год назад

There’s also a reference for “the internet is for porn” (Avenue q musical)

@bassic6959 Год назад

thanks for making these lovely bite sized docos that are super interesting. I love your content and its super digestable for someone who has seemingly no time for good content anymore I love this a lot

@kiereluurs1243 Год назад

Documentaries.

@bassic6959 Год назад

@@kiereluurs1243 ???

@TheAnon26 Год назад

Damn. I wonder what the two of them would think if they saw the world today... Thanks for bringing the mundaneum to my attention! ^^

@cowboyfrankspersonalvideos8869 Год назад

For those interested in 'the rest of the story', there's a great, easy to understand, and entertaining book called "Where wizards stay up late: The origins of the Internet". Available in print, on e-readers and audio.

@kmw4359 Год назад

They had “adult topics” and later half of it was cleared out to make room for a rubber industry presentation? That’s ironic.

@TheHylianBatman Год назад

Essentially a big library and encyclopedia! Excellent!!

@tradebucket3562 Год назад

The rich history of this filing cabinet is extraordinary. I love it

@jaredkennedy6576 Год назад

Love the little The IT Crowd spoof there.

@lewkbrett Год назад

I always laugh when narrating Tim makes a joke and starts yelling to someone away from the microphone. I like to think it's a cat lol

@cyqry Год назад

It always amazes me how many folk from decades and even centuries past had pretty much hit the nail on the head with certain inventions, even if their version doesn't quite grasp the small scale we have thanks to a little thing called the microchip.

@Mishotaki Год назад

Loved it, thank you for this wonderful story, it was a pleasure to learn about this.

@qugart. Год назад

I so appreciate The IT Crowd is playing in the background

@davegoldspink5354 Год назад

Fascinating and interesting story Tim thanks so much for sharing. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@YouennF Год назад

3:33 I see what you did with the music. Well done.

@RomanoPRODUCTION Год назад

My favorite laidback youtuber. So cool. Thank you Super Tim

@adrianrutterford762 Год назад

Wonderful video. Thanks Tim. Love the TW theme music.

@sjmelnikoff Год назад

I’m glad I’m not the only person who recognised that!

@adrianrutterford762 Год назад

@@sjmelnikoff So am I.

@petervanackeren5227 2 месяца назад

Still not entirely obscure and forgotten here in Belgium, but for sure very much so elsewhere I guess. Quirky, very entertaining and informative ... another excellent one this !

@helmutkok7833 Год назад

A the IT Crowd reference and a Rick roll. You are spoling us Tim

@DigitalGamerBE Год назад

Wow... I never anticipated that I'd see my town in one of your videos! I should go back to the mundaneum now! Thank you 😁

@cakemartyr5794 Год назад

Thanks again for a great video. Love the Rick Astley cameo. My contribution: in the rock opera Tommy, Pete Townshend foresaw something known as The Grid, I think, where people would be connected. And as I'm sure you're aware Minitel was very big in France through the eighties. Would be great to see a video on that.

@ThisIsARubbishName Год назад

Tim I just wanna say I love the audio design of your videos. I always try and recognise the songs and listen for jokes. And the content is really good!

@bunjection Год назад

i love that you used the avenue q song on 3:19. even when you said about the internet being born here it lines up with the song lyrics

@TheWeirdaholic Год назад

Yep. That was nice.

@Liza03V Год назад

Thank u. Through your travels and your knowledge I started reading more and of course following you. I m obsessed with your channel. Merci.

@bernardfournier9650 Год назад

Je n’avais aucune idée de tout cela. Merci pour ce fantastique vidéo !

@RogerFriberg Год назад

Oh that subtle music nod to AvenueQ when talking about.. erhm.. adult stuff.. Bravo Tim, JUST BRAVO!!!

@Ruhrpottpatriot Год назад

I can't believe that I got Rickrolled here.... Also nobody going to talk about the background music?

@JdeBP Год назад

_Everybody_ talks about Tim's background music. (-:

@Koenzie83 Год назад

One of the best videos I watched in times, clear, complete and new

@FestinaFirefly Год назад

Tim; you are brilliant. Every episode is charming and leaves me feeling slightly giddy.

@matthi5146 Год назад

This video is a godsend, the content fits so well in my topic for a school project! thank you very much for the inspiration

@Rheilffordd Год назад

The last place I expected to get Rick rolled was this channel! Well played Tim!

@jessicad83 Год назад

Congratulations on 300K Subs Tim!! Most deserved 🎉💋

@klenzgaming Год назад

just top notch editing and effects. well done Tim

@JackieBaisa Год назад

Your videos are brilliant. Love the editing (the Rick Roll and the meta TV in a TV, haha) and I just love the topics you select. Truly great videos. Been watching you for years now and it just gets better and better. Thanks for all the cool stuff you do!

@deanbayden4519 Год назад

Nice use of the IT Crowd theme! Another great video, thankyou

@yagi3925 Год назад

Belgium is great, Belgians are fantastic! You're right to underscore this. It's a terribly underrated country and people.

@greenbriar07 Год назад

I'd love to visit this for nostalgia's sake, my town's library used to have index cabinets. I still miss flipping through those drawers, with the mish-mash of hand written and typed out cards.

@hellmuthschreefel9392 Год назад

Tim, you present the most interesting little videos ever on the electronic mundanueum.

@MicraHakkinen Год назад

3:33 Brilliantly subtle choice of background music :)

@mykul8151 Год назад

Absolutely brilliant, well researched mate. Also, poor Rick Astly

@simonpowell9975 Год назад

I do love the music you use, always a nostalgia hit!

@Optidorf Год назад

I have an endless admiration for how you come up with this stuff. I'm a Belgian and I have never heard of it.

@evandonovan9239 Год назад

I'm so glad you always mention how accessible the places are that you visit.

@bobnelsonfr Год назад

I always enjoy these videos .... but this one is particularly fine. Thanks.

@relo999 Год назад

I'd have to say, the music choice in this video. Perfection!

@i-am-ber Год назад

It's always fun trying to spot the music covers! Tomorrow's World: instant nostalgia.

@sjmelnikoff Год назад

Ha! Glad others recognised that too 😊

@bartsimho1192 Год назад

The music when talking about what was stored is perfect for the topics at 3:32

@douglasboyle6544 Год назад

Another banger of a video, I don't know how you keep finding this stuff but please don't stop!

@julaizaya7946 Год назад

My country nearly dit what?!? 😂😂😂 That so cool in fact. Thanks for the video, greetings from Belgium. Votre français est vraiment bon, bravo Tim 👏.

@Craftlngo Год назад

Il habite on France pour quelque Années

@AXELVISSERS Год назад

Ieuw ne Waal

@Karincl7 Год назад

@@AXELVISSERS nen Belg

@HD-ty8ng Год назад

Fantastic find, great story. Would love to visit that cabinet now weirdly enough. Btw thanks for always adding the info if the place is wheelchair accessible!

@maidbloke Год назад

Excellent nod to the Internet episode of the IT Crowd with the piano theme music at the beginning 🤓👍

@buggerall Год назад

This was truly inspiring! Love your work!

@ryanohare6538 Год назад

this is the coolest video on the internet and no-one can tell me otherwise

@Aidentified Год назад

This, Jen, is the internet.

@HeavenlySpoon Год назад

Actually, Robert Cailliau (a Belgian) worked on the WWW with Tim Berners-Lee, so we have another claim to inventing the internet. I do expect his contributions are somewhat more emphasised here in Belgium, but still.

@Robinramakers Год назад

Came here to tell this, and see if Tim had incorporated it in his video.

@caulkins69 Год назад

Oh ffs. The internet did not begin with the worldwide web.

@chouseification Год назад

dude STOP immediately!!! The WWW is a commonly used service ON the Internet but don't you dare suggest that you had ANYTHING to do with "inventing the Internet". How dare you even go there!!! Don't you dare try to steal the valor of those who actually did that work... Also, Tim's WWW project took a LOT of concepts from Gopher, yet you aren't calling the creators of Gopher (which was around earlier) as "inventors of the Internet". Sheesh....

@nordicwolf1193 Год назад

The music, just hilarious, for us that actually seen Avenue Q 😅❤ 3:44

@Flor-um1zu Год назад

Hey Tim, a big thank you for covering these stories. Your other Belgian history videos thought so much about my country, I hope your visits have been fun to you personally, merci à toi

@Yossus 9 месяцев назад

The Avenue Q playing in the background disguised as an old timey piano piece is such a brilliant musical touch

@philherb3843 Год назад

Thank you for the "internet"-box from THE IT-CROWD and the fitting background music. And for the rick-roll at the end. You always find interesting subjects and present them in an informativ and fun way!