Thefacebook

Thefacebook
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Facebook launched in 2004, though at the time it was only open to college students and was called "The Facebook"; later on, "The" was dropped from the name, though the URL http://www.thefacebook.com still works.

ICQ

ICQ
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Once you were weaned off AOL, you still needed a reliable messenger to keep in touch with all your 133t friends and buddies, and back in the day, we didn’t have that newfangled skype software with its fancy video and voice chat, so if you wanted to send online messages, you used ICQ (I Seek You) and you got to toggle between instant message mode.....

Netscape Composer

Netscape Composer
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When I first started browsing the web, my browser of choice was Netscape. Back in the 90s, Netscape Navigator actually had less credibility than IE, and the browser was often referred to as netcake by 1990s website elitists.  However, one vital feature that was bundled in with the browser, which started me off designing very badly coded but visually decent pages, was Netscape Composer. Composer.....

CGI Resource Index

CGI Resource Index
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It wouldn’t be right talking about websites from the 90s that had “-Resources.com” in the title without talking about CGI-Resources.com – another one man operation which was run my another famous Matt, Matt Wright. CGI-Resources was THE website to visit once your you had matured past the geocities free hosting phase, and wanted to add some power to your pages (namely cgi scripts). Matt also.....
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