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Mit Technology Review

Keeping Tabs
By Ed Tenner Febuary 2005

How many college students today ever flip through trays of library
catalogue cards? Some of them may never have used an actual tabbed file.
But the tab as an information technology metaphor is everywhere in use.
And whether our tabs are cardboard extensions or digital projections,
they all date to an invention little more than a hundred years old. The
original tab signaled an information storage revolution and helped
enable everything from management consulting to electronic data
processing.

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/02/issue/megascope.asp

 

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Chuck Piotrowski

CVPS

 

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