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The Memex memory expansion concept unveiled by Vannevar Bush in 1945 was a system whereby information recorded on microfilm was projected onto a translucent screen. What he envisioned was the compression and rapid access of information. Even before the advent of computers, Bush had already created the basis for our current multimedia while he led the Manhattan Project atom bomb experiments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

Memex

A memex (a portmanteau of "memory" and "index") is a hypothetical electromechanical device for interacting with microform documents and described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so th...