> To pitch it, he submits a proposal for organizing scientific documents to his employers titled “Information Management, a Proposal.” If this is going to be t

> To pitch it, he submits a proposal for organizing scientific documents to his employers titled “Information Management, a Proposal.” If this is going to be the opening item then it would be nice to at least have a blurb about predecessor ideas. Tim Berners-Lee's "Information Management: A Proposal" cites Ted Nelson for the concepts behind "Hypertext" and the "docuverse". Nelson was directly inspired by Vannevar Bush and the idea of the Memex as presented in "As We May Think". Bush had his own influences, of course, like the Statistical Machine, but it's a huge miss to not go back at least this far considering the US Government's role in building the actual ARPANET/Internet. Bush was director of OSRD / S-1 Executive Committee at the time of "As We May Think", so there's a direct link of influence between the eventual World Wide Web concept and that of the network itself. https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html https://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/bush.html https://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/bush.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-1_Executive_Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-1_Executive_Committee