The Internet has come to resemble an enormous used book store with volumes stacked on shelves and tables and overflowing onto the floor, and a continuous stream of new books being added helter-skelter to the piles.

— Robert Pool, Turning an info-glut into a library (1994)

Source: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7939636

From a 1994 Science article.

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