TIL that DIALOG was originally a Lockheed Martin project.
@platypus huh. TIL.
they had an outsize impact on infosec as well
@dsalo reading a 1980ish work document and they keep referring to it as "Lockeed DIALOG" and that sent me down a rabbit hole of course.
@dsalo also a fun galaxy brain idea -- what if any researcher for whom Penn State bought a terminal had to bring the terminal to the library to be hooked up...
@platypus of course it was.
Everyone hated that class at UMich/SI :)
btw, this is a background thing I've been saving to read for more detail. https://ethw.org/Milestones:DIALOG_Online_Search_System,_1966
(also technically it hadn't yet merged with Martin)