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Travel back in time... Use the Wayback Machine to view pioneering web sites from the past. |
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Yahoo! "Jerry's
Guide to the World Wide Web" was started
in 1994 by a couple of computer geeks in a
trailer on the Stanford campus. Seven
years and one name change later, we have the
phenomenally successful Yahoo! Do you uh... |
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Trojan Room Coffee Machine Necessity
may be the mother of invention but coffee is
the fuel. Tired of walking down three
flights of stairs only to find an empty coffee
pot, the engineers at ATM Networks created the
worlds first web cam. |
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National Center for Supercomputer Applications Yes,
it's a long and imposing name, but the
National Center for Supercomputer Applications
was much more widely known by a more
accessible moniker, NCSA. Home to the
extraordinarily popular "What's New"
page, NCSA kept millions of web surfers up to
date on the fast growing web. |
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The Internet Movie Database Created in 1989, and first arriving on the
web in 1993, the Internet Movie Database has been dispensing movie
trivia since the time when Brooke Shields starred in Brenda Starr. |
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Ultimate Band List Started in the Summer of 1994 at Caltech U.,
UBL, originally known as the Web Wide World of Music, or WWWOM,
quickly grew into a large and wildly popular directory of music
links. |
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Amazon.com Time Magazine's man of the year in 1999, Jeff
Bezos, founded Amazon.com in July of 1995 as an online bookstore.
Now, six years later, with 29 million customers, $4 billion in annual
revenue and stores selling everything from roofing nails to widescreen
televisions, Amazon.com is the largest e-tailer on the net and one
of the last ones still standing. |
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The White House The White House joined the internet revolution
at an early date, but neglected to register the domain whitehouse.com.
Now, whitehouse.com (an adult site) gets more than ten times as
much traffic as whitehouse.gov. That's the first amendment for you. |
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National Aeronautics
and Space Administration The NASA website has been around for a long
time, but it wasn't until the 1996 Mars Pathfinder mission that
the site took off. Millions of people logged on each day to see
the first glimpses of the Martian surface. |
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WebCrawler Before AltaVista and Google, there was WebCrawler
- a fast, large web search engine. Ultimately, WebCrawler couldn't
keep up and was surpassed by HotBot, AltaVista and now Google. But,
in the early days of the web, WebCrawler was THE search. |
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Feed In May of 1995, Feed opened its virtual doors
and joined a growing breed of journalism that was taking place online.
The party ended in June of 2001, when Feed announced that it, along
with Suck was going on permanent hiatus due to lack of funding. |
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The Well Begun in 1985 as one of the first Bulletin
Board Systems, the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link was an online meeting
place for support groups and lively discussions.First connected
to the net in 1992 (!) and with its first homepage in 1994, the
Well was at the forefront of the Internet revolution. |
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