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Oct 22, 2019 at 19:24
'As We May Think' is an article from 1945 that introduced the idea of a 'memex', a personal computer with hyperlinked documents. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ It treats reading trails as a first class entity that can be commented and shared!
As We May Think
As We May Think
“Consider a future device ... in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”

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