[ih] History of Online Databases

[David P. Reed]

>The Stanford AI Lab had the AP wire online 24 - 36 hours worth).  You 
>could query it for stories having a boolean expression of keywords. We 
>often telneted in and would use it.  If you were a registered user of 
>SAIL, you could have it send you mail when articles you were interested in 
>came by.  And believe me, it got a lot of use this was a very exciting 
>time:  Agnew's resignation, Watergate, Allende's overthrow, etc. etc.

I used it a lot myself!  And I think MIT-AI had the AP newswire and the 
NYTimes as well at about the same time.