Oldest similar idea I can think of is from 1945, called the Memex: > Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of

Oldest similar idea I can think of is from 1945, called the Memex: > Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex