Afterword:Omissions, Additions,and Corrections

The astute reader will notice that I've omitted a few online services. Some were so short-lived or of so little consequence that they would be meaningless to most readers. Others are beyond the theme or time frame of this book.

Some of the omissions:

  • ABI/INFORM (Abstracted Business Information), a database of abstracted information from selected business publications, hosted by ORBIT, Dialog, and eventually UMI/ProQuest
  • Data Courier, a small online service hosted by the Louisville Courier-Journal (the owners of which bought ABI/INFORM under the company name "Data Courier")
  • EasyLink, Western Union's now-defunct email/FAX/mail system
  • Easynet, a front end for more than 700 database services
  • EasyPlex, ...

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