Many of the technologies being built today are based on the ideas initially conceived by post-World War II scientists. In fact, it was in July of 1945, when Dr. Vannevar Bush described the ["memex" device][2], a device with an uncanny resemblance to the Internet:
A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility.
Only twenty years later in 1965, Ted Nelson, inspired by the same Dr. Bush, would conceive of the idea that content and documents should be ["hyperlinked"][3]. And finally in 1990, [Tim Berners-Lee along with some of his colleagues][4], would tie the concept of the hyperlink together with the idea of an inter-connected world to develop what we know now today as the Internet, allowing humankind to access and link information across vast distances almost instantly.