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by WalterGR 2098 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

The memex (originally coined "at random",[1] though sometimes said to be a portmanteau of "memory" and "index"[2]) is the name of the hypothetical proto-hypertext system that Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article "As We May Think".

That cat's been out of the bag for at least 75 years.