[mt] BT hell-o :+)

[David Howe]

Mike Richards <m.richards@open.ac.uk> wrote:
> I really can't see how this could pass the basic patent requirements of
> originality*, the fundamentals of the concept were laid down by Vannavar
> Bush's 'As We May Think' article in the Atlantic Monthly 1945

> http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/ ) discussing the microfilm
Memex
> and Ted Nelson's hypertext ideas of the 1960s.
It certainly impliments the basic .us requirement of "bloody obvious idea
applied to the internet" that is the source of so many stupid american
patents lately.....