The federal PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) system — the electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from U.S. appellate, district and bankruptcy courts, and to search via the U.S. Party/Case Index — is 20 years old.

See: Pacer Coming Into Its Own at 20 in the November 2008 issue (vol. 40, no. 11) of The Third Branch: Newsletter of the Federal Courts.

Hat tip to today’s Law Librarian Blog.