• reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    16 hours ago

    That whole section of the Dewey system is strange. Programming, computers, journalism, library science, then witchcraft, the unexplained, fung shui, tarot.

    Like why aren’t the computer books sorted next to science and math topics? Or electronics? Who decided this? (Dewey was long dead before people started writing computer books).

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      12·
      15 hours ago

      That classification is the general information section, and deals with info and not how its used. Seems like when computers came about they saw them as information storage systems.

    • raman_klogius@ani.socialEnglish
      5·
      15 hours ago

      Mr Dewey is definitely the type who’d call tech support for a problem that can be fixed by “turning it off and on again.”

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      3·
      16 hours ago

      Just Nerd Things? It’s the only explanation i can come up with, at least when taking the time when this was decided into account