Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed

published on 2023/08/06

In 1945, Vannevar Bush proposed the idea of memex, a hypertext system. It came two decades before the internet and almost half a century before the web. Because of the time in which it was invented, it was envisioned as a mechanical device: a desk with cards and a mechanism for showing them to the user.

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