Download or read book Memory Machines written by Belinda Barnet and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications. Barnet tells both the human and the technological story by weaving together contemporary literature and her exclusive interviews with those at the forefront of hypertext innovation, tracing its evolutionary roots back to the analogue machine imagined by Vannevar Bush in 1945.