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Advent of Information And Inquiry Services
Source: Data Management Magazine Published: September, 1969
Prior to the advent of Google, the Internet and data warehouses, the problems of finding the information you needed was well understood. In this article Schussel talks about the 1960’s advent of information inquiry services, the predecessor to information centers and the later turn of century Internet based solutions.
Even in the 1960’s about the costliest and most time consuming problems facing industry and government were the storage, retrieval and communication of knowledge. Human knowledge was understood to be expanding at such a tremendous rate that the documentation supporting this advance was concurrently mushroomed in a multitude of directions. They knew that computers would solve the problem, but it would still take a few years.
