In 1945, as the atomic age dawned, a visionary engineer named Vannevar Bush imagined a machine called the "memex"—a device that could store all human knowledge and let anyone traverse it through trails of association. It was science fiction. Four decades later, a physicist at CERN named Tim Berners-Lee made it real.
This episode traces the extraordinary journey from Bush's theoretical musings to the birth of the World Wide Web, weaving through the Cold War laboratories where ARPANET first connected distant computers, the garages where personal computing was born, and the Swiss particle physics facility where hypertext became humanity's shared consciousness.
From analog dreams to digital reality, discover how a handful of visionaries, hackers, and dreamers built the infrastructure that would reshape human civilization—one connection at a time.