From Memex to Google

Yet his Memex machine, as he called his proposed idea, turned out to be a call to action for many computer science professionals in the ensuing years to invent and develop information technologies, according to computer historians. Developments that had to occur for Dr. Bush’s dream to come to fruition included packet-switching data networks able to transmit electronic bits through telecommunications lines; the Internet itself; the commodification of PCs and software; the World Wide Web; computer graphics; search technologies; and much more.