books.google.co.uk - Throughout history, humans have sought ways not only to acquire but to preserve knowledge. From when to plant crops to who begat whom, even the earliest people worked to gather and store information. Today, computers and other technologies have almost completely changed the world of information access...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/A_history_of_information_storage_and_ret.html?id=bYGrRynxtMUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA history of information storage and retrieval