Dialog (online database)
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Dialog is an online information service owned by Thomson Corporation. As a provider of information (though not in form), Dialog was one of the predecessors of the World Wide Web.[1][2] The earliest form of the Dialog system was completed in 1966 under the direction of Roger K. Summit.[3] According to its literature,[4] it was "the world's first online information retrieval system to be used globally with materially significant databases". In the 1980s, a low-priced dial-up version of a subset of Dialog was marketed to individual users as Knowledge Index.[5] This subset included INSPEC, MathSciNet, over 200 other bibliographic and reference databases, as well as 3rd party retrieval vendors who would go to physical libraries to copy materials for a fee and send it to the service subscriber.
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- ^ Susanne Bjorner and Stephanie C. Ardito, Online Before the Internet: Early Pioneers Tell Their Stories. Part 1: In the Beginning, Searcher, June 2003 ISSN 1070-4795
- ^ Susanne Bjorner and Stephanie C. Ardito, Online Before the Internet: Early Pioneers Tell Their Stories. Part 2: Growth of the Online Industry;, Searcher, July/August 2003 ISSN 1070-4795.
- ^ Roger Summit, Reflections on the Beginnings of Dialog: The Birth of Online Information Access, Chronolog, June 2002. The Dialog Corp. ISSN 0163-3732
- ^ Thomson Scientific and the invention of online information services, visited 1/26/2008
- ^ Phyllis E. Worden, Knowledge Index. Journal of Extension, Volume 26 Number 2, 1988. ISSN 1077-5315
