English Explanatory Dictionary

memex

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A proposed computer system, implemented with electromechanical controls and microfilm equipment, that would permit a researcher to follow and annotate topics of interest, analogous to later hypertext technologies.

Word forms

memex memexes

Etymology

Blend of memory + index, coined by Vannevar Bush in his article As We May Think (1945) in The Atlantic Monthly.

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