I’ve been looking back at some of my notes from my MA days and came across something on the origins of hypermedia and linked information.

In particular, I’d spent a lot of time looking into the peerless Vanevar Bush who had a great deal of amazing ideas but most notably (to my thinking) was his early conception of the memex - an early pre-cursor of the world wide web. A true heavyweight and a man who operated seamlessly across science and politics. His ideas of associative trails can be seen all around us - not just with the web itself but in smaller applications of his thinking with stuff like facebook, flickr, twitter etc.

And if you like that then have a go on Ted Nelson…he’s quite interesting too.