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Sixty Years of Memex

Posted by timothy on from the I-can't-remember-that-far dept.

CubicStar writes "Sixty years ago, Vannnevar Bush published on 'Atlantic Monthly' his seminal article on the Memex, that computer-like device which would provide access to a huge amount of interlinked information. At the time computers were experimental and secret but a visionary (with a shadowy edge) proposed something which even today looks at least influential."

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  1. So ... by jurt1235 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Gore claims he invented/build the internet, and Bush claims he invented the search engine?

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