Table 2. History of Hand Surgery Web sites
1876 Index Medicus established
1966 Index Medicus computerized
1995 http://www.handsurgery.com domain name registered - probably the first hand surgery web site on line.
Orthopaedic Links Page on line (now at http://owl.orthogate.org/)
Medical Multimedia Patient Information on line (now at http://www.sechrest.com/mmg/)
1996 http://www.hand-surg.org ASSH domain name registered
http://www.thehand.com Eurimed Hand Surgery domain name registered
http://www.belgianorthoweb.be Belgian Orthoweb on line
http://www.ejo.org Electronic Journal of Orthopedics (now defunct)
http://www.handlibrary.org International Hand Library domain name registered
http://www.medmedia.com Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics on line
http://www.carpaltunnel.com domain name registered
1997 http://www.nlm.nih.gov Medline becomes free access
http://www.handsurgery.org AAHS domain name registered 
http://www.asht.org/ ASHT domain name registered
http://www.eatonhand.com e-Hand online
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/handsurgery/ejhome.htm Electronic Journal of Hand Surgery online
http://wwwsom.fmc.flinders.edu.au/fusa/orthoweb/notEBOOK/home.html South Australian Orthopaedic Registrars' Notebook online
1998 http://www.worldortho.com/database/etext WorldOrtho Orthopaedic Electronic Textbook online
Mailbase Hand Surgery Listserve begins (now hosted by Orthogate: hand-subscribe@orthogate.com)
1999 http://www.webs-hand-surg.com/ WeB's Hand Surg online
2000 A great fomentation.
2001 Jan 2001 Search Results:
Search Term Alltheweb.com search PubMed Search
"hand surgery" 22635 22274
"hand surgeon" 2271 1048
"carpal tunnel syndrome" 144013 4217