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BMJ on the internet

1840 marked the introduction of the penny post and the first issue of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal (the BMJ's precursor).¹ Since then the journal has depended crucially on the postal services for its distribution. Any change to this intimate relationship has been unthinkable--until the arrival of the internet.

The internet is a global network of computers that allows communication among its estimated 30 million users.² As Enrico Coiera points out in his article on recent advances in medical informatics (p 1381),³ one of the internet's most important recent innovations has been the creation of the World Wide Web, which allows users to exchange not only text (email does that) but images, sound, and video. Documents are stored as "home pages" at "web sites" and are available for the price of a local telephone call to anyone with a computer, a modem, and . . . [Full text of this article]

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