The Memex concept required creating permanent associative trails between related documents, such that reading one document would guide users to connected documents forever after, essentially predicting the hyperlink decades before the internet existed.
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“He imagined a user sitting at this desk reading a document on archery on one screen and pulling up on the physics of wood tension on the other. The user would pull a lever and the machine would build a permanent trail between those two documents. Forever after, whoever looked the archery document would be guided to the physics document.”
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