![]() I can’t recommend reading this essay strongly enough. What he describes is the precursor to things like Hypertext, structured file systems, wide area networks (and the Internet) and… Graphical User Interfaces. ![]() Otherwise it looks like an ordinary desk.”īush also describes ways of storing, retrieving, and interacting with information within the “Memex”. There is a keyboard, and sets of buttons and levers. On the top are slanting translucent screens, on which material can be projected for convenient reading. “It consists of a desk, and while it can presumably be operated from a distance, it is primarily the piece of furniture at which he works. Essentially… what we now call the Personal Computer. This article turns out to be one of the most critical works in the history of computing and it describes a new machine… which Bush calls the “Memex”. ![]() In 1945, Vannevar Bush (the first Director of the USA’s Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II) wrote an article, published in The Atlantic, entitled “As We May Think”. ![]()
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