The original idea for the world wide web emerged in a flurry of scientific thought around the end of World War II. It began with a hypothetical machine called the “memex,” proposed by US Office of Scientific Research and Development head Vannevar Bush in an article titled “As We May Think,” published in The Atlantic in 1945.
As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction
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