Snip!t from collection of Alan Dix

<div class="row"><div class="col-sm-12 col-md-4"><p>In 1945, Dr. Vannevar Bush published "<a target="_new" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/">As We May Think</a>", a short article which inspired inventors to create personal computers, the internet and the web. </p> </div> <div class="col-sm-12 col-md-4"> <p> In that article, he described an automated desk called a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex">memex</a>" which provided fantastic abilities never before seen or even imagined. </p> </div> <div class="col-sm-12 col-md-4"> <p> Sadly, Vannevar Bush's memex was far beyond what the analog technologies of 1945 could enable so <b>it remained just a fantasy</b>. </p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12 col-md-4 col-md-offset-4 text-center"> <h3 id="pull-headline">Until Now!</h3> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12 col-md-4 text-center"> <img src="memex-1.jpg" alt="memex"> Life magazine illustration </div> <div class="col-sm-12 col-md-4"> <p> Prototype engineer <a class="nobr" href="http://trevor.smith.name/">Trevor F. Smith</a> at <a href="http://podipo.com/">Podipo</a> has gathered all available documentation about the memex and is fabricating the <span class="nobr">Memex #001</span>, <b>a machine which looks and acts like it was built in 1945</b> to Dr. Bush's specification. </p> </div> <div class="col-sm-12 col-md-4 text-center"> <img src="incomplete-desk.jpg" alt="incomplete memex"> Memex #001 during construction </div></div>