Online Before the Internet: Early Pioneers Tell Their Stories: part 2: Growth of the Online Industry
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2003
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Searcher
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11
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52-61
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| Abstract |
In Part 1 of this series, published in the June 2003 issue of Searcher, Roger Summit (Dialog), Carlos Cuadra (ORBIT), and Dick Kollin (Pandex, Magazine Index, Telebase, and EasyNet) described the initiation of the ORBIT Search Service at System Development Corporation, the beginnings of DIALOG at Lockheed, factors that encouraged and discouraged the development of these systems, and the early wave of online. In this segment of "Online Before the Internet," their April 2000 discussion is continued, focusing on the addition of databases, marketing, and building the industry, commercial and government enterprises, and competition. They begin by recalling the role of COSATI in expanding awareness among government agencies of the possibilities of online.
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