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November 19, 2005
Back to the Future
Hi everyone, here's something you might enjoy about digital history...in 1983!
“When a database in available for direct, immediate, interactive searching, it is said to be ‘online.’ A searcher uses a typewriter-like electronic data terminal to communicate over telephone lines with the information retrieval system’s large computer where the databases are stored. The searcher can interact with the database to alter or modify the search at any point and can test results along the way.”
“The New Technology for Research in European Women’s History: 'Online' Bibliographies” by Joyce Duncan Falk in Signs, Autumn 1983, p.121.
Chck out JSTOR for the full article
Posted by alechne1 at November 19, 2005 11:53 AM