The World Wide Web that time forgot

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By Alex Wright / The Bulletin
June 17, 2008

MONS, Belgium — On a fog-drizzled Monday afternoon, this fading medieval city feels like a forgotten place.

Apart from the obligatory Gothic cathedral, there is not much to see here except for a tiny storefront museum called the Mundaneum, tucked down a narrow street in the northeast....

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