Online articles from January 1997

Online archives from January 1997

Online at 20 - the publisher reminisces. (periodical)
January 1, 1997... CONCEPTION AND BIRTH... STARTING A MAGAZINE ON A SHOESTRING Twenty years ago this past summer this magazine was conceived in a train of thought that started after a visit to the offices of a small magazine called...

Online. (periodical devoted to online information industry)
January 1, 1997... Remember when you first discovered online information? You can probably recall it with clarity, as you can for other turning points. If your experience goes back to the beginnings of the profound transition from print to online, you knew at...

Faster, better, cheaper: a decade of PC progress. (microcomputers' history)
January 1, 1997... Where you using a personal computer when the first ONLINE was published? Probably not, unless you were a true pioneer. Oh, they did exist back then - the first computer kit based on an Intel 8008 actually came out in 1973. But ready-to-use...

Reflections on twenty years on Online magazine. (from 1976 to 1996)
January 1, 1997... Anniversaries are a time to reminisce and reflect on the past and also to look toward the future. In this column, I will do a little of both. THE ONLINE INDUSTRY Can you imagine an online information industry without ONLINE?...

Whose PC is it, anyway?(future of the personal computer)(Column)
January 1, 1997... As we begin another year, I'd like to pause to take a look at where the PC is going. During the regular work day, I find I get carried along with the flow of just using the technology, and never have time to think about what it means. If that...

Images in your future: the missing pictures in an online search.(includes related article on file formats)
January 1, 1997... As the online industry comes of age, it looks as though one element of search frustration may be on the way out. Those pie charts, diagrams, tables, graphs, and illustrations that contain the information you want from an article - and that have...

The Internet: part of a professional searcher's toolkit.
January 1, 1997... these real-life quotes illustrate the challenges facing professional researchers. No, not everything is available on a cost-effective basis on the but the Net does offer access to information that simply wasn't available before. Just as...

Forecasts, and an Internet wish list.(Column)
January 1, 1997... Twenty years ago, when the first issue of ONLINE was published, the ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet, had already connected computers at a variety of sites throughout the country. The protocols for telnet, FTP, and email had already...

1997: what's ahead?(for the Internet)(Column)
January 1, 1997... When asked to offer an opinion on what's ahead, I often think about the profound wisdom shared by the three prophets who appeared briefly in Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979). Known as the Blood and Thunder Prophet, the False Prophet, and the...

Consumer online in the age of the net. (Internet)(Column)
January 1, 1997... A retrospective for consumer online these days can easily edge over into a requiem Consumer online is by no means dead, but it is in the throes of its greatest changes ever, with no guarantees on the outcome. The transformations have already...

Online, past, present and future: repetition, reinvention, or reincarnation.(includes tips for database producers and online hosts)(Column)
January 1, 1997... Twenty years? It's been twenty years since I received the first issue of ONLINE? Twenty years since I first read Jeff Pembertons column The Inverted File? I cant believe it. I haven't aged that much, Jeff hasn't aged that much, and most...

DJN/R lends its authority to the Web, launches four new newswires. (Dow Jones News/Retrieval; World Wide Web)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1997... The Dow Jones Business Directory, a Web-based navigation aid with direct links to more than 350 business- and finance-related sites, is now a featured area within the business section of the Infoseek search site (www.infoseek.com). Dow Jones...

Individual Inc. acquires Hoover.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1997... Individual, Inc., an early entrant in the customized desktop news delivery business. has acquired the Hoover business intelligence services unit from Information Access Company. Hoover, an enterprise-wide, integrated interface to news and other...

Our profession is changing: whether we like it or not.(special-library services outsourcing) (includes related articles)
January 1, 1997... Outsourcing came like a clap of thunder to the attention of information professionals in the U.S. in the summer of 1995. That's when General Electric Co. decided to outsource the operation of its headquarters' information service to Teltech....

Migrating from NetWare to Windows NT.
January 1, 1997... If you are one of the thousands of people who have decided to make the switch from NetWare to Windows NT, you should buy this book. I won't go into the politics of this situation, but I will say that Miller has created a remarkably unbiased...

Java Quick Reference.
January 1, 1997... The Java language's APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are what the Java programmer uses to develop programs. API libraries are made up of packages. Each package contains several classes that are grouped by functionality and are composed...

How to Build and Internet Service Company.
January 1, 1997... I think you would have to be out of your mind to want to become an Internet Service Provider (ISP), but if that is your dream in life, then this is a "must have" source. I find the first couple of sections a bit peculiar. Why would someone...

The Web Page Workbook.
January 1, 1997... Traditionally a textbook publisher, Franklin, Beedle & Associates has recently moved into mass market publishing with a couple of promising new offerings. This one, Web Page Workbook, is Web page development at its most elementary level. While...

Only the Paranoid Survive.
January 1, 1997... Grove isn't the writer that Jerry Kaplan is (see review of Start Up: A Silicon Valley Adventure in the September/October ONLINE), but he does run a top-notch company, and there are lessons to learn from that. Sometimes being entertained isn't...

NetSuccess: How Real Estate Agents Use the Internet.
January 1, 1997... A consistent prediction among publishers I interviewed for the first part of this column was that we're going to see more Internet books targeted towards special audiences. NetSuccess is a joint effort of Songline Studios and O'Reilly &...

HealthGate to acquire PaperChase, develop and market unique Web-based products.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1997... HealthGate Data Corp. has announced its intent to buy PaperChase, an online medical information service launched in 1985 by Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The combined enterprise will serve over 100,000 users, including institutional and...

New president, other changes at Knight-Ridder Information.(Jeffrey S. Galt)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1997... Jeffery S. Galt was named in October to succeed Patrick Tierney as President of Knight-Ridder Information, Inc. Galt, formerly Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of KRI, has promoted two KRI Vice Presidents to his senior management...

Consumer services revamp, regroup, reprice. (pricing, positioning changes by America Online, Prodigy)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1997... America Online, pressured by competitive stresses from the consumer online sector as well as from flat-rate Internet service providers, has introduced a new, multitier pricing structure. The flagship fee of $19.95 per month includes unlimited...

Wilson and SilverPlatter to publish jointly. (H.W. Wilson to publish databases compliant with SilverPlatter's Electronic Reference Library platform)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1997... SilverPlatter Information and H.W. Wilson have entered into an agreement to share technology enabling Wilson to publish ERL-compliant databases. H.W Wilson is a leading provider of indexes, abstracts, and full-text services in print and a...