Vannevar Bush of MIT published an article entitled "As We May Think" in the Atlantic Monthly (Vol. 176, No. 1 [1945] 641-49) describing the Memex, an electromechanical microfilm machine which evolved from his "Rapid Selector" project, capable of making permanent associative links in information. This hypothetical machine foreshadowed aspects of the personal computer and hyperlinks on the Internet.
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