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BMJ 1998; 317 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.317.7153.265 (Published 25 July 1998) Cite this as: BMJ 1998;317:264Back to basics
As it is now some three years since my introductory articles on the internet were published in the BMJ, in this edition of Netlines I will review some of the issues raised in those articles and see what has changed since they first appeared. The articles, with recently updated references, can now be purchased as the booklet Guide to the Internet (www.bmjpg.com/data/b98gmed/guideint.htm) from the BMJ Bookshop (www.bmjpg.com/data/shop.htm).
More and more diseases online
In the first of my articles I searched for what I thought was a fairly obscure subject, Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis. Not only are there now many more and better sites covering this condition (such …