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Saturday, 7/18, 01:59 PM

Roger Summit, who built online search decades before Google, dies at 95

  • Long before anyone typed a query into Google, Roger Summit built a system that let researchers search vast databases from a remote terminal in minutes.
  • His creation, Dialog, was the first commercial online search service, and it laid groundwork the modern web would later inherit.
  • Summit has died at 95.

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