Wikipedia

5094 readers

127 users here now

A place to share interesting articles from Wikipedia.

Rules:

Only links to Wikipedia permitted
Please stick to the format "Article Title (other descriptive text/editorialization)"
Tick the NSFW box for submissions with inappropriate thumbnails
On Casual Tuesdays, we allow submissions from wikis other than Wikipedia.

Recommended:

Use the search box to see if someone has previously submitted an article. Some apps will also notify you if you are resubmitting an article previously shared on Lemmy.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

Mundaneum (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 5 months ago by eah@programming.dev to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago

Prior to the shift to computers

where you typically have computer programmers designing data structures and such

my understanding is that a lot of people worked on designing filing systems for humans to use, which was somewhat analogous.