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Vannevar Bush, born 1890, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, was never directly involved with the creation or development of the Internet. Yet many consider Bush to be the Godfather of our wired age often making reference to his 1945 essay, "As We May Think."
In his article, Bush described a theoretical machine he called a "memex," which was to enhance human memory by allowing the user to store and retrieve documents linked by associations (what he called associative trails). This associative linking was very similar to what is known today as hypertext.
Vannevar Bush died on June 30, 1974, years before the Internet became widely popular or the World Wide Web even existed. With the growing popularity of the Internet many now look back through its history and see Bush as a visionary.
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Vannevar Bush, born 1890, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, was never directly involved with the creation or development of the Internet. Yet many consider Bush to be the Godfather of our wired age often making reference to his 1945 essay, "As We May Think."