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article-tgtimes-national-library-medecine.mw (2906B) |
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1 .SH tgtimes |
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2 Gopher for Medical Research |
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3 .2C 50v |
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4 . |
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5 .PP |
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6 The National Institute of Health is well used to the Gopher protocol, |
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7 for it used it as a way to publish medical documentation. You named |
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8 it: \fIPubMed\fR itself have been delivering documents through Gopher: |
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10 .IP "Phone books" |
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11 with name, phone number and e-mail addresses of those willing to submit it, |
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13 .IP "Images" |
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14 like weathermaps, |
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16 .IP "Audio" |
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17 such as 1992 presidential debates, |
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18 . |
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19 .IP "Books" |
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20 and all kind of publcations, also proposed to users as a way to publish their own content, |
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21 . |
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22 .IP "Videos" |
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23 short ones, but also on-demand movies! |
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25 .IP "Telnet" |
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26 interfaces with login and password, |
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27 . |
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28 .IP "Search engines" |
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29 For browsing this entire content. |
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30 . |
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31 .PP |
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32 The technical bulletin of March-April 1994 reveals as much. |
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33 While 1994 does not sounds like a world gifted with nowadays unlimited technology, equivalents to modern tools, with less bells and less whistles, were already widespread among providers, but much less used as they are today: |
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34 . |
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35 .IP "Spotify" |
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36 were files through Gopher. |
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37 . |
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38 .IP "Netflix" |
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39 were files through Gopher. |
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40 . |
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41 .IP "PubMed, ResearchGate" |
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42 were files through Gopher. |
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43 . |
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44 .IP "Instagram" |
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45 were files through Gopher. |
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46 . |
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47 .IP "Facebook" |
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48 were publication as files through Gopher. |
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49 . |
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50 .IP "Amazon Kindle" |
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51 were text files through Gopher. |
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52 . |
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53 .IP "Office365" |
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54 were telnet interactive session, or WordStar, PostScript, and ASCII |
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55 files through Gopher. |
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56 . |
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57 .IP "Google" |
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58 was either gopher search, or interactive telnet sessions, with |
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59 sometimes powerful query languages, permitting to filter the result |
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60 held in the databases: \fISearching for references about Italians |
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61 with AIDS that are not indexed with ITALY (MH)\fR |
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62 . |
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63 .PP |
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64 This showcases that a lot of thing declared as \fIpossible today |
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65 thank to the advances of technology\fR were available since as early |
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66 as 1994. With much less bells and much less whistles. With much less |
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67 bandwidth for everyone, but existing bandwidth much less used as |
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68 well. |
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69 . |
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70 .PP |
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71 Interactive database querying languages would look a bit uninviting, |
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72 and TurboGopher (showcased in the document) has not all the font, |
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73 layout, media integration features of modern day web browsers. |
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74 . |
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75 .PP |
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76 Under that perspective, the race to technology looks like not a quest |
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77 for new use-cases, but taking what was possible in the early days to |
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78 in a crude format and only to some initiated, to the masses, in an |
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79 inviting layout, packed onto small, shiny objects that fit on a mere |
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80 pocket. |
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82 .FS |
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83 https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/archive/nlm_technical_bulletin_march_april_1994.pdf |
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84 .FE |
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85 . |
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86 .PP |
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87 One year later, the Gopher for Science and Medecine project still is |
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88 blown at full steam, as the National Library of Medecine publishes |
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89 a bibliography for setting-up gopher servers for collaborating on |
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90 specific medical topics. |
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91 . |
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92 .QP |
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93 Developing a subject-specific Gopher at the National Library of Medicine |
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94 . |
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95 .FS |
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96 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7599590/ |
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97 .FE |
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