Vannevar Bush

During World War II, a man named Vannevar Bush facilitated a relationship between the federal government, the American scientific community, and business.

After the war, he helped institutionalize that relationship.

As a result, organizations like the National Science Foundation and Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), were created. It was at ARPA that the Internet first began. Bush also wrote a paper entitled, "As We May Think," in 1945. In this paper he described a theoretical storage and retrieval device, called a "memex," which would use a system remarkably similar to what we now call hypertext.