A Memex is a hypothetical electromechanical device for interacting with microform documents and described in Vannevar Bush’s 1945 article “As We May Think“. Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, “mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility”. The individual was supposed to use the memex as an automatic personal filing system, making the memex “an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory”. The name memex is a portmanteau of memory and expansion.
I have utilized my very own memex, or personal database here that contain my old blog posts from 2006-2010 has been added as well. There are a few gaps in the timeline that I need to find and migrate in, as well as the fact I am missing five years worth from 2001-2005. This was because I lost the original 3.5″ floppy disk during a move and never copied or backed it up anywhere else.
And that is the reason why this website exists- to prevent that from happening again. Once everything written in the past is here, I will then make a large .pdf book and store that as well. Hell, maybe I will print it.
I promise myself I will keep compiling and printing as the archives grow larger in the upcoming years.