{"id":3877,"date":"2022-02-17T15:39:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2022-02-17T15:40:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:40:34","slug":"the-memex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/the-memex","title":{"rendered":"The Memex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vannevar Bush described the \u201cmemex\u201d in his 1945 article \u201c As We May Think\u201d. This thing is similar to computers or smartphones. It is a device in which a person can store all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. The brilliance of the \u201cmemex\u201d and how it tackles the problem of information access is by way of associative indexing. The concept of the \u201cmemex\u201d&nbsp;influenced the development of early&nbsp;hypertext&nbsp;systems, eventually leading to the creation of the&nbsp;World Wide Web, and&nbsp;personal knowledge base&nbsp;software.&nbsp;From my perspective, \u201cmemex\u201d has contributed to the creation and development of blogs and Medium, TikTok, Instagram, or other collection and authoring tools.&nbsp;These tools have updated features such as the ability for users to upload videos, audio, etc. They also have richer search capabilities. However, the functions of \u201cmemex\u201d are the basis of these functional concepts of this Apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wikipedia contributors, \u201cMemex,\u201d Feb, 2, 2022,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Memex&#038;oldid=1069464091\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vannevar Bush described the \u201cmemex\u201d in his 1945 article \u201c As We May Think\u201d. This thing is similar to computers or smartphones. It is a device in which a person can store all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. The brilliance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-memex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3878,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}