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In 1896, Otlet set up a fee-based service to answer questions by mail, by sending the requesters copies of the relevant index cards for each query[...] By 1912, this service responded to over 1,500 queries a year. Users of this service were even warned if their query was likely to produce more than 50 results per search.

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Спасибо xgrbml. Там еще чудесная цитата.

PS И да, сразу вспоминается Нил Стивенсон.