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Memex

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(hypertext)Memex - Vannevar Bush's original name for hypertext, which he invented in the 1930s.

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Nevertheless, the Internet has become a serious communication tool and a record of our civilization, precisely what Vannevar Bush sought for his memex device more than a half-century ago.
The need for "data-mining" (although the term didn't exist at the time) in a participatory system was the origin of Vannevar Bush's Memex, Douglas Engelbart's model of direct interaction, as well as Ted Nelson's Xanadu, and led to the first manifestation of the World Wide Web in the Internet browser and server Tim Berners-Lee created in 1990.
the leading worldwide provider of intelligence management and analysis solutions, today announced new secure search capabilities are available within the Memex Intelligence Engine, used for conducting searches in environments where data is sensitive.
 
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