Is There an Analogue Between Open Source and Anything That Existed Before 2000?

Open source is like a collaborative book, he says. It feels very unique in terms of what's going on in the world and where people are and what they're doing. Is there an analogy you can think of between open source and anything that existed in the world prior to the year two thousand imean? I mean, so much of it really would have been inconceivable in terms of, especially like the scale.