Proper noun (person)
Vannevar Bush
(March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) American director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development; he came up with a concept called the 'memex' which was a spiritual forefather to hypertext way back in 1945
in 1949 Vannevar Bush wrote the important article 'As We May Think', which laid out the fundamental properties and vision for multimedia and hypertext.