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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 | + | 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 === | ||
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