jan 1, 1945 - In 1945, Vannevar Bush (Science Advisor to president Roosevelt during WW2) proposes Memex. Memex is conceptual machine that can store vast amounts of information, in which users have the ability to create information trails, links of related texts and illustrations, which can be stored and used for future reference. In his view, Memex would act like the human mind which uses an “association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain. ” Vannevar Bush
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