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The Web
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Electronic Publishing -
A Short But Eventful History |
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| 1937 | Wells promoted the concept of a world brain based on a permanent world encycloaedia. |
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| 1945 | Bush (technical advisor to Roosewelt) addresses the problem in the growth of knowledge, and proposed a technological solution based on his concept of memex , a multimedia personal computer. |
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| 1967 | Time-shared conversational computing (Gruenberger, Ott) allowed computers to be used to begin to address these early visions of the Web in providing a national information system (Rubinoff). |
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