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Interesting trivia. One of the inspirations for Page Rank was undoubtably the Science Citation Index. Which was ultimately inspired by a 1945 article called As We May Think by Vanevar Bush. HTML is inspired by the idea of hypertext, which was inspired by the idea of a memex machine, which was invented in a 1945 article called As We May Think by Vanevar Bush. Yes, the same article. In other words Google lives in the i…
Interesting trivia. One of the inspirations for Page Rank was undoubtably the Science Citation Index. Which was ultimately inspired by a 1945 article called As We May Think by Vanevar Bush. HTML is inspired by the idea of hypertext, which was inspired by the idea of a memex machine, which was invented in a 1945 article called As We May Think by Vanevar Bush. Yes, the same article. In other words Google lives in the i…
Thanks for this. It's really interesting to find the source of ideas
I learned this tidbit from an essay called In Oldenberg's Long Shadow. It has disappeared from its original location, but http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20040204224231/http://www.a... still has it.