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Imagine trying to build a search engine, but your only technology is dead trees and sheer neuroticism. In 1910, the Mundaneum was launched as a massive repository of human knowledge, housing over 12 million index cards in a sprawling physical database. Users could submit queries via telegraph, and a human operator would literally walk through aisles of cabinets to fetch the answer. It was a steampunk Google built purely on cataloging obsession and paper cuts.
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