By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/06/2026I remember when I learned this from my elementary school's teacher-librarian, when I was seven and my class got a tutorial on the school library's card catalog. 17/ 191
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/06/2026The librarian explained this principle to us in a matter of minutes, as part of a longer set of instructions, and still, it stuck with me forever. 18/ 1100
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/06/2026But here we are, 48 years later, and we still haven't standardized a way to get computers to grasp this foundational principle of alphabetization. 19/ 1122
