ABSTRACT
The origin of what has developed to become the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) goes back to work done in the early 1940s by Vannevar Bush. He was the originator of the concept of an associative system for the organization of data within networks (the other being the concept of breaking messages into discrete smaller packages to maximize efficiency by utilizing the networks effectively). Bush was an American scientist who had done work on submarine detection for the US Navy. Bush, who was C. Shannon’s professor at MIT, had built the differential analyzer that sat in the basement of the Moore School and had facilitated further computing developments during the Second World War from his position in the US Office of Scientific Research and Planning.
