Re: Significance of "As We May Think"

From: Philip Jonkers (philipjonkers@prodigy.net)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 17:33:34 BST

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Subject: Re: Significance of "As We May Think"
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 09:33:34 -0700
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    Wade:
    > His coinage of 'memex' in 1945 seems to have been overlooked.... I wonder
    > how that was pronounced....

    `Meme' as in `mean' substituted with an `m'. Now add an `x' as in X-men
    and you get `meam-X'. There you go....

    Phil.

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