The first Library web site (when and where?)

[John Creech]

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Skip Booth wrote:

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> DRA( http://www.dra.com/ ) looks like they had the first web based catalog that
> was commercially available and viable for the public to use. There may have been
> others out there but when we went with DRA WEB in early 1996 I wasn't aware of any
> other Web based opacs out there. I am curious where there any others or any home
> grown applications running earlier than February, 1996?

Endeavor Corp. had the Voyager Webpac going by that time, I think.  

John Creech
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