Vannevar Bush's Memex Concept Published

Vannevar Bush's seminal essay 'As We May Think' described the Memex, a theoretical electromechanical desk that would allow users to store, organize, and retrieve information with associative indexing and 'trails'.

Significance

While not a digital system, it laid the conceptual groundwork for personal information management, hyperlinking, and the rapid retrieval of documents, anticipating many features of modern DMS and hypertext.