Comment by blakesterz
4 years ago
I assume see also and/or inspired by good the ol' Dewey Decimal System?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes
You probably don't know much about Dewey, he's got a pretty "interesting" life story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvil_Dewey
"At the June 2019 conference of the American Library Association the Council voted to remove Dewey's name from its top honor, the Melvil Dewey Medal; the resolution cited Dewey's history of racism, anti-Semitism, and sexual harassment. The resolution was passed overwhelmingly with no debate. The award was renamed the ALA Medal of Excellence at the Association's January 2020 conference"
(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.)
Yep, a friend of mine named it in 'honour' of Dewey Decimal. Kinda genius, which I can say because that wasn't my idea. :-)
But yeah had no idea he was a terrible human, that's a shame.
I wonder when it was created in his name? Given:
> He resigned from the American Library Association due to allegations of sexual harassment, racism, and antisemitism in 1905.
I’m not a historian, my friend. Dewey’s kinda famous, my mate basically said it out loud one day, my name is Johnny, the system has a decimal in it, boom, that was it. At the time I was the only person using it and the idea of a website was years away. Let’s not read too much in to it eh.