[ih] History of Online Databases

[Rick]

Hello all ...

Does anyone know (or can point me in the right
direction) when the first online databases appeared?

I'm particularly interested in the first web-enabled
databases -- how long after the launch of the WWW was
it before anyone wrote a web-specific program, and
what were the first databases used for? 

Context: trying to produce useful teaching materials
for a  UK national qualification:
http://www.edexcel.org.uk/qualifications/QualificationAward.aspx?id=45013
Unit 4: "Internet - Past, Present and Future".

Thanks ...
(Rick)
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