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==History==

In 1996, [[NetMind]] developed the first change detection and notification tool, known as Mind-it, which ran for six years. This spawned new services such as ChangeDetection (1999), ChangeDetect (2002), and [[Google Alerts]] (2003) and Aotol Page Monitor (2005). Historically, change polling has been done either by a server which sent email notifications, or a desktop program which audibly alerted the user to a change. Change alerting is also possible directly to mobile devices and through [[webhooks]], or HTTP callbacks for application integration or [[Push Notification]] such as Aotol Page Monitor.

Monitoring options vary by service or product and range from monitoring a single web page at a time to entire web sites. What is actually monitored also varies by service or product with the possibilities of monitoring text, links, documents, scripts, images or screen shots.