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✿ Welcome, welcome!¶

Thank you for taking a moment to peruse my memex. Here you will find both (somewhat) sensible and (mostly) nonsense notes that I've collected throughout the HIST1900c History of the Internet course!

March 8th 2023 - Sophie's Memex 2.0 Update brings you lots of fresh content!

✿ All notes marked with ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ in the table of contents below are the 2.0 additions to the memex.

✿ We also have a brand new starting point which can help dive into the memex better, here you will also find a cohesive list of all updates and changes.

April 9th 2023 - Sophie's Memex 3.0 Update brings us to an end of our journey here.

✿ Once again, all notes marked with ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ in the table of contents below are the latest additions to the memex.

✿ Stay tuned for the final journey note to wrap everything up with a nice bow on top.

April 26th 2023 - The final update.

✿ 0_Final Journey_1

✿ 0_Final Journey_2

Table of Contents¶

Source notes
_{These are links to the bibliographic information on what I've read and linked for this memex. Click here for the index.}

• As We May Think

• Questions From A Worker Who Reads

• Short history of the Printing Press

• From Clay Tablets to Web

• The Garden and the Stream

• How the Page Matters

• Cable Recovery

• When Computers Were Women _{Sourced via Rowan E's Memex!}

• Submarine Telegraph Cables

• What would Alan Turing have done after 1954

• Alan Turing’s Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

• IBM and Germany 1922–1941

• Prehistory of Social Media ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ _{Sourced via Eric H's memex!}

• My Secret Life ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ

• Now AI Can Write Students' Essays ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ

• Online Community of GeoCities ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ

• The Evolution of the Internet ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ

Takeaways
_{Here are some idea notes based on in-class experiences. Click here for the index.}

• Book Lab Takeaways

• Unconference Style Class

• Feb 15 In Class Notes

• AI Essay Response ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ

• April 3rd notes ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ

• March 13 class notes ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ

• March 27th class ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ

Thoughts
_{These are all my thoughts based on readings or connections I've made outside of class. Click here for the index.}

• Clay Tablets and iPhones

• The Printing Press

• Untold Stories

• Recovery Efforts

• Ignored in History

• Gutta Percha

• Alan Turing

• Connection to Memex

• IBM's Questionable History

• Early Internet As I Knew It ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ

• Email and Lost Communications ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ

• Narrow Histories ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ

• The web as a place ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ

• Thoughts on AI ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ

• Thoughts on Prehistory of Social Media ⁻ ᴺᴱᵂ

Full, unprocessed annotations
_{Fairly self-explanatory- these are my annotations on certain readings in their full capacity. Click here for the index.}

• As We May Think - Annotations

• The Garden and the Stream - Annotations

• How the Page Matters - Annotations

_{Pictured above: Memex 1.0 Map of Contents}

_{Pictured above: Memex 3.0 Obsidian Graph View}

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p.s. Theory is cool