Alphabetic order
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History of The Ordre Alphabétique
The Alphabetic Order was first seen in 12th century France. The Order was described by French theologian and logician Gilbert de la Porrée in a lesser-known treatise, Faith in Logic.
- "The Ordre Alphabétique has taken the love of order to an extreme that has raised the ire of the Vatican. They have reordered the Bible so that the names of the books are in the order of our letters. That Acts appears before Genesis, Exodus or even Deuteronomy has caused confusion in the fiefdoms whereupon the Ordre has scribes replacing existing Bibles."
The Ordre Alphabétique was forced out of the Church late in the 12th Century under intense pressure from Pope Celestine III. Though there are mentions of the Ordre scattered throughout western Europe, their impact was not noticed. Over the next six centuries the French origins of the group faded as they moved to the relative safety of the British isles.
The Anglicized Alphabetic Order Emerges
In the early 1700's the Alphabetic Order reemerged in England. The Order had become a secret society similar to the Masons, though they were public in their mission to alphabetize the information of the world, few expected that their reach would be so great. They had amassed techniques of alphabetization that went as deep as 37 letters even before the Industrial Revolution.
As the Order gained access to more and more information they grew in power. The power of their easy to browse information caches brought many influential and powerful people to the Order. Though there were many people who joined the Order, only a few were allowed membership in the full Alphabetic Order, as they were very cautious to only allow people who were true believers in their cause.
Contributions to society from the Alphabetic Order
- Filing
- The Index
- Dewey Decimal System
- Spreadsheets
- Dictionaries
- Encyclopedias
- Directories
Influential Members of the Alphabetic Order
- Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Decimal system, added numeric correlation to the classic alphabetizing that the order had perfected.
- Noah Webster, author of An American Dictionary of the English Language which was coincidentally in alphabetic order.
- Oliver Concordance, the inventor of the concordance, which is commonly mistaken with an index.
- Matt Griffith, one of the founders of Falsipedia, only let into the Order because he did a search on Google for Secret Society Handshakes and Catchphrases and has since been expelled from the order after writing this article.
- Jacko Spreadsheet, an Australian adventurer and computer programmer who invented the modern spreadsheet.
- Elvis Sorto, a Canadian computer programmer that invented the alphabetic sort used in many computer applications.
