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I’m a little late to this thread; but is PubMed really one of the most reliable services in the history of the internet?

I worked on the underlying infrastructure that powers PubMed in the 2010’s at the National Library of Medicine.

I was all up in that thing converting legacy pneumatic Johnson Control systems to Siemens PXC’s, and didn’t actually realize its historical importance online. That’s pretty cool to see this comment.

We had full access to the Datacenter at the National Library of Medicine, and as a young apprentice I really had no idea what PubMed was at the time lol.

I only realized how important of a system it might be when we saw the realtime traffic analytics on the screens outside of the data hall.




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