1998: Google!

1998: Google!
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Google went live in 1998, revolutionizing the way in which people find information online.

1991: First web page created

1991: First web page created
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1991 brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was.

The Internet In 1996

The Internet In 1996
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In 1996, the Internet Archive began archiving the web for a service called the Wayback Machine. They’ve now archived 55 billion web pages. That’s enough web pages that if you were to print them all out using your roommate’s printer while he was at class and tape them end-to-end, you could reach the moon and back 28 trillion times.

I decided to peruse the Wayback Machine’s earliest archives to see what the internet looked like in 1996, when I was 14 and evidently had much less free time than I do now. Much to my chagrin, few websites from these early years have been successfully archived, and many of the best preserved ones were created by fast food and soft drink corporations because they were some of the earliest adapters of the internet. They viewed the medium as a chance for inexpensive advertising and invested dozens upon dozens of dollars into it. The results are tremendously humiliating.

Flashback to 1995

Flashback to 1995
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Flashback to 1995: AOL Proggies By Marco on April 19, 2004 Inspired by a discussion on the Something Awful Forums, I remembered the time I spent using AOL in middle school. There were these programs ("proggies") that would hook into the AOL software and allow you to do special things, like easily type using color-faded text or extended ASCII characters. I had one of these.....
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