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- Jan 2024
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johnhalbrooks.substack.com johnhalbrooks.substack.comHwæt!1
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The fire completely consumed some of them, but among the survivors, though badly singed around the edges, was a curious book known as the Nowell Codex, which formed part of a volume labeled “Cotton MS Vitellius A XV.” (Robert Cotton, who had collected the manuscripts a century before, categorized his books with the busts of Roman emperors, which sat atop his shelves—hence, “Vitellius.”)
Robert Cotton's library had busts of Roman emperors atop his shelves, and he used their names as part of his indexing system to be able to associate books' locations to make them findable.
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- May 2023
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ssociative indexing,
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- Feb 2014
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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It affords an immediate step, however, to associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.
The essential feature of the memex is its ability of association; tying two items together.
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