A
kiosk is 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.
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