# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Mundaneum. The shocking true story of the man who invented the internet and the man who destroyed it
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: If you believe Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet, then Mel Croucher invites you to think again. 

He will reveal a story of two men who met only once. One was a pacifist, the other was a Nazi. One man’s vision was to harness all the world’s data for peace, and long, long ago he built a world-wide-web to deliver exactly that. He called it The Mundaneum. The other man’s vision was to harness information to control the masses, and in 1944 he achieved that too then attempted to destroy all records of the Mundaneum. He nearly succeeded, but not quite.

Mel will take you on the pathway that led him to the evidence that the Internet was conceived in 1891 and fully functional by 1934, when it embraced telephony, radio, television, data discs, remote terminals and millions upon millions of interactive files. He will then explain how and why the Mundaneum and its creator were erased from history, along with parallels of today’s online information wars. 

Mel Croucher is the acknowledged founder of the British computer games industry. He was originally an architect, but moved into the world of computerised entertainment to smuggle his music past an unsuspecting public.

Twice winner of the Game Of The Year Award, he pioneered software broadcasts via radio, geocache games, the first computer-generated movie, the first AI virtual companion and the first million-user viral marketing campaign.

He is the author of text books, computer manuals, fiction and non-fiction, and more than a thousand of his columns and investigations have appeared in print over six decades. His 2024 book “Mundaneum” is published by Extremis Publishing.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/winchester/mundaneum-the-shocking-true-story-of-the-man-who-invented-the-internet-and-the-man-who-destroyed-it/200029482325221
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Winchester
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: The Winchester Club
- **lat**: 51.06976
- **long**: -1.317
- **full address**: The Winchester Club, Highfield Lodge, Worthy Lane, Winchester, SO23 7AB, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Mundaneum. The shocking true story of the man who invented the internet and the man who destroyed it being held?
  - **A:** Mundaneum. The shocking true story of the man who invented the internet and the man who destroyed it takes place on Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm at The Winchester Club, Highfield Lodge, Worthy Lane, Winchester, SO23 7AB, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Mundaneum. The shocking true story of the man who invented the internet and the man who destroyed it?
  - **A:** Mundaneum. The shocking true story of the man who invented the internet and the man who destroyed it is organized by Skeptics in the Pub - Winchester.

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