Did Wells predict the Internet?

Jack William Bell asks if H.G. Wells predicted the internet. From reading this 1937 essay, 'The World Brain', I'd agree with Jack - Wells came very close:

"There is no practical obstacle whatever now to the creation of an efficient index to all human knowledge, ideas and achievements, to the creation, that is, of a complete planetary memory for all mankind. And not simply an index; the direct reproduction of the thing itself can be summoned to any properly prepared spot. A microfilm, coloured where necessary, occupying an inch or so of space and weighing little more than a letter, can be duplicated from the records and sent anywhere, and thrown enlarged upon the screen so that the student may study it in every detail."

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