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Annotate vs Memex - What's the difference?

annotate | memex |

As a verb annotate

is to add annotation.

As a noun memex is

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.

annotate

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To add annotation

    • Related terms

    * annotator * annotation * reannotate * unannotated * annotated ----

    memex

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia memex) (es)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 11, author=Matt Weiland, title=Web of Spies, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Surely when Vannevar Bush imagined his hyperlinked memex or Jorge Luis Borges his Library of Babel or Tim Berners-Lee his World Wide Web, what excited them wasn’t the possibility of reading the boldfaced words “nympho starlets” in a printed novel, racing to the nearest computer to type a U.R.L. into a browser and watching a YouTube clip of James Blunt singing “You’re Beautiful” over scenes of Sharon Tate in “The Fearless Vampire Killers.” }}