Communication · 1945

Memex (As We May Think)

Vannevar Bush imagines a desk that stores all your records and links them by association.

In his July 1945 Atlantic essay, Bush described the memex, a microfilm device where users could build trails of linked documents. The idea directly inspired Douglas Engelbart and Ted Nelson, and through them hypertext and the web.

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