Memex:

In 1945, Bush articulated his proposal for a multimedia system
(Memex) that would permit information search, retrieval, and
processing of a variety of media resources.  As indicated in his
seminal article, "As We May Think", humans think most effectively
by recognizing associations and patterns.  Bush postulated that
the development of such a system would require a new
technological paradigm based on the structure of human memory. 
He conceived the Memex machine as a device "in which an
individual stores his books, records, and communications, and
which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding
speed and flexibility."  Memex was to be an "enlarged supplement
to memory" which, like the human mind, would operate through an
associative structure; "... with one item in its grasp, it snaps
instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of
thoughts in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried
by the cells of the brain."  While Bush recognized that a
mechanized system might not equal the speed and flexibility with
which the mind followed an associative trail, he proposed that it
was technologically possible to "beat the mind decisively in
regard to the permanence and clarity of the items resurrected
from storage" (Bush, 1945).

<cfile26>   Grandfather of Hypertext
<cfile28>   Hypertext vs. DBMS
<cfile29>   Evolution of Hypertext
<cfile32>   Hypertext Navigation
<cfile58>   Film Storage