# MEMEX - Memex

# Memex

Memex is a hypertext engine, backed by gemtext and git. It's files all the way down. All files are readable as well as writable by both human and machine.
You are looking at Memex now, either through HTTP or Gemini, or possibly over telnet. It has as many ways to access, as well as several uses.
It's a personal information manager, a wiki, a weblog; all these things and none of them.
The aim is to create something that retains the power of a simple file system abstraction, while also providing the strengths of interconnected hypertext while avoiding some of its problems, especially dead links.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/gemtext.gmi
  On Gemtext

## Name

It's named after Vannevar Bush's hypothetical invention in the 1945 essay "As we may think".

> This is the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important part.

This is true for both his memex, and my memex.
https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/wiki/Memex