Memex
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The memex (a portmanteau of "memory" and "index") is the name of the hypothetical proto-hypertext system that Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article "As We May Think" (AWMT). Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility." The memex would provide an "enlarged intimate supplement to one's memory". The concept of the memex influenced the development of early hypertext systems (eventually leading to the creation of the World Wide Web) and personal knowledge base software.
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See also
- People
- Andries van Dam
- Douglas Engelbart
- J.C.R. Licklider
- Paul Otlet, considered one of the fathers of information science
- Ted Nelson
- Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web
- Vannevar Bush
- Ideas
- As We May Think
- Intelligence amplification
- Mundaneum, the organization created in 1910 that aimed to classify all knowledge
- Office of the future
- Victorian Internet, term to describe 19th century telecommunications technologies
- World Wide Web
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