Memex is a hypothetical electromechanical device for interacting with microform documents and described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility". The individual was supposed to use the memex as an automatic personal filing system, making the memex "an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory". The name memex is a portmanteau of memory and expansion. The concept of the memex influenced the development of early hypertext systems, eventually leading to the creation of the World Wide Web, and personal knowledge base software. The hypothetical implementation depicted by Bush for the purpose of concrete illustration was based upon a document bookmark list of static microfilm pages and lacked a true hypertext system, where parts of pages would have internal structure beyond the common textual format.
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in which i obtain a second brain with better memory
literally my linkdump/scratchpad. vaguely organized, with no particular order.
“what if today was your last day on earth?”
“i’d better make it count, then.”
“it doesn’t make a damned bit of difference
who wins the war to someone who’s dead.”
- punk rock ethics are good business (h/t jwz)
- boeing’s deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage
- and a reminder that cops can force you to use biometrics to unlock your phone
here’s (most) everything from the superseded cool sh!t page
- “sweden” from minecraft but it’s actually pink floyd
- coin (artist)
- hiroshi nagai’s americana
- the best drip art in graffiti
- that awesome time i was sued for two billion dollars
- elevator hacking: from the pit to the penthouse
- steal everything, kill everyone, cause total financial ruin
- stalking a city for fun and frivolity
- the revolution will not be served with fries (cool fiction!)
- inside the red flag machine
- in which the swivel-eyed loons have a point
- 3m, gaslighting, and forever chemicals
- the one-traffic-light town with some of the fastest internet in the u.s.
- and there’s a lot of bees in maine
- ink-stained wretches
- 500 million dollars and failure
- the important nuance between coddling and caring