This. And Elsewhere: The History of the Index
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What do fingers and books have in common? They point. To this. To elsewhere.
An index helps with that, that of the hand, and that in a book. But how did books actually come to have them? And what are they useful for?
This episode traces the development of indexes (or indices!), that under-estimated text navigation technology that's still with us today in for of Google searches.
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