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=== Memex ====== Memex ===
In "As We May Think" (1945), Vannevar Bush described a hypothetical desk-sized device, the '''memex''', that would store a person's books and records on microfilm and let them build ''associative trails'' between items &mdash; permanent links, followed at a keystroke, that could be named, saved and passed to a colleague.<ref>Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think". ''The Atlantic Monthly'', July 1945.</ref> Bush's argument was that indexing by category fights the way memory actually works, which is by association.+In "As We May Think" (1945), Vannevar Bush described a hypothetical desk-sized device, the '''memex''', that would store a person's books and records on microfilm and let them build ''associative trails'' between items: permanent links, followed at a keystroke, that could be named, saved and passed to a colleague.<ref>Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think". ''The Atlantic Monthly'', July 1945.</ref> Bush's argument was that indexing by category fights the way memory actually works, which is by association.
=== Nelson and Xanadu ====== Nelson and Xanadu ===