- [[the memex is the original digital garden]], conceptualized an “overlay to the world’s knowledge, allowing people looking at one document to discover related documents, data, and commentary by others.” - This is different from standard links in documents, which is just what the originally author links to; the Memex was meant to “capitalize on the shared annotations of other readers”. - Google, in many ways, is doing exactly what the Memex was supposed to. - We are using it less often as a portal into a single document from which we brand off into different links. - Instead, we often use it to build upon our answers with different search terms, or by clicking through other related questions (which indicates *what other people are thinking about* in relation to your search), or using their “deep linking” overlays that direct you to the section of a document you’re looking for. - Caulfield calls this an *overlay* instead of a *portal into*.