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Remember The Good Old Days?

The first article database I remember using was Dialog, sometime in the late 80s or early 90s. Today I found myself amused that we used to call such things “interactive.” That is, you poked the command line interface with questions and it usually beeped a syntax error, all while they charge $4 per minute, plus […] » about 600 words

Casey Bisson on #dialog information service, #history, #interactive database, #libraries, #nostalgia, #phrack, 15 Nov 2007
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