In 1995, being pushed toward a pile of books that might be about grizzlies was a real breakthrough. But consider whom this would interest, and how that would shape the kind of person who cared most about the internet. An unorganized public library wouldn’t be as practical (or as popular) as a library with alphabetized shelves and the Dewey decimal system. But an unorganized library would still attract the type of exploratory patron who didn’t mind a haphazard afternoon of paging through dozens of books that might only have a peripheral connection to their area of interest.
