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Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A proposed computer system, implemented with electromechanical controls and microfilm equipment, that would permit a researcher to follow and annotate topics of interest, analogous to later hypertext technologies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Blend of memory + index, coined by Vannevar Bush in his article As We May Think (1945) in The Atlantic Monthly.
