kiosk
A stall set up in a public place where one can obtain information, e.g. tourist
information. The information may be provided by a human or by a computer. In the
latter case, the data may be stored locally (e.g. on CD-ROM) or accessed via a
network using some kind of distributed information retreival system such as
Gopher or World-Wide Web.
(1998-09-07)
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