THE TRAIL

The Trail is the record you leave behind as you associate "Things" in your working environment.

The idea of the Trail was first suggested way back in 1945 by Vannevar Bush in his visionary article, "As We May Think". Bush dreamt of a device that would augment his mental powers. He called it the "Memex".

Bush's trailblazing ideas inspired the design of the Trexy.com search engine. It was while working on Trexy that I realised I needed to code faster/stronger/smarter which led to the development of The Goo.

Here are some related blog entries:

• Introducing Trexy [trexy]
• Vannevar's Vision Thang [trexy]
• Vannevar's Trailblazer [trexy]
• Thanks for the Light Ogg [trexy]
• Vannevar's Trails of Association [trexy]
• The Goat Trail [trexy]
• Augmentation [thegoo]
• The Goo Trail [thegoo]
• Goo Trails [trexy]
• The Associator [thegoo]
• Structural vs Temporal Association [thegoo]
• Synaptic Silliness [thegoo]
• Injecting Events into the Trail [thegoo]