Memex animation - Vannevar Bush's diagrams made real

This is a recording of a Macromedia Director application that was built to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bush's 1945 "As we may think" paper. The application was built by Dynamic Diagrams and was distributed at the ACM SIGIR conference in 1995.

http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/index.php

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[cavegames .]

I just read Bush's original article, and it is a very fascinating read today, especially his more universal and philosophical thoughts. He imagined the modern World Wide Web, 45 years before it was developed. He did not live to witness it, but every one of his visions came true, and probably much earlier and more widespread than even he would have expected. Bush was indeed one of the greatest visionaries of the last century.

[oxmys]

Send one to Angleton at the Laundry, pronto.

[JamesBrenton9000]

it sounds like the photo analyzing machine from Bladerunner

[hueandcrylancer]

Hmm. Interesting. I was under the impression that Memexes had pedals but I guess that that must've been artistic license.

[steveBB30]

...cont

Ensure each frame of microfilm, and notes has a unique reference number say roll, and frame

Associative info can be recorded by shining patterns of light onto yet more film.

[steveBB30]

A possible way?

notes written on screen with a dry wipe marker, and rubbed off when finished. Photograph taken of those notes using a frame of slide film, that's gets developed after shot taken.. Should be possible to set a camera up with a very narrow depth of view so it effectively only records say within 1mm of the screen's glass everything else being blurred out. That frame of slide film then gets used like a gobo, to block parts of microfilm image.

[janithw]

I don't understand how he"inserts a comment of his own" or how the trail is recorded. You cannot edit or make notes on processed microfilm.

[AppA]

1945 ---> Internet of Things