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 and MathSciNet. References
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