As We May Think by Vannevar Bush

An article that appeared in [The Atlantic Monthly]? in July of 1945 and described something in many ways like today's World Wide Web (in fact, he had features still not elegantly available).

http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/

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[Vannevar Bush]?' "As We May Think", first published in Atlantic Monthly in July 1945, argued that as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making all previous collected human knowledge more accessible.

The article itself: [URL http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm]

Bush Symposium Web Site: [URL http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/graphics/html/info/vannevar_bush.html]

Bush Symposium Information Farm: [URL http://www.eastgate.com/squirrel]