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Kiosk History - having worked in the kiosk industry longer than most, and being an archivist one task we take to heart is in providing an objective chronology of kiosk history. For more history and historical content be sure and check out the Kiosk Archives here on Kiosk Industry. Our first encounter with the internet was IP-based Decnet in 1979 (43 years ago).

Some advice -- as time passes many links to sites expire and err out as old sites are phased out (Ultimedia.fr for example used to be one of the largest kiosk websites in the world, now they are a blank Windows IIS server page). We update those broken links using web.archive.org versions when available. If you run into a broken link we suggest checking the Wayback Machine.

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Is there value in the history of kiosks? Periodically someone gets a patent letter and invariably looks for prior artwork (and usually finds it). The old original visi site [server retired in 2014] started before 1998 and the link above takes you to the first iteration of kiosks.org. Back in the days of Big & newsgroups like comp.infosystems.kiosks. Our major assets were the original Los Alamos report and all of the discussion boards from that era. Those become relevant for prior artwork and patent disputes. Not many these days remember Usenet and all of the discussions on kiosks there. Compuserve and 14.4 modems.

The news and press from that era (along with the patents and events) are sometimes forgotten, deleted or erased by media groups less interested in reporting the industry and more interested in sales revenue, but they are never lost thanks to archivists. The old kiosks.org newsbits for example [site retired in 2014] and the kiosk history (now hosted on this site).

Gokis and Gokiosk were both sites that began in 2003 when Craig left Networld (the blood pressure got a bit too high). Moved to Colorado and went to work for Rick Malone. Thanks for the golf membership by the way. In any case one of the

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