Saturday, January 22, 2011
THE DIGITAL LADY: Fifteen years ago today the New York Times published an article titled, "The New York Times Introduces a Web Site," announcing that "The New York Times begins publishing daily on the World Wide Web today, offering readers around the world immediate access to most of the daily newspaper's contents" and that such content would exceed the "@times" service it had been providing to subscribers of America Online. The Web, the article explained, was "the Internet's fastest-growing service, which lets computer users see electronic publications consisting of text, pictures and, in some cases, video and sound." Sounds like fun.
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Just curious anyone know what day The Onion's website started? Because that was 1996 as well.
ReplyDeleteAh, memories of downloading a quicktime .mov of "Frog Baseball" on a T1 for 8 hours.
ReplyDeleteIn 1996, I was working at a mid-sized metro newspaper that had exactly one computer with an Internet connection in its newsroom, and that was via a 14.4 dial-up modem. At the time, there was virtually no commerce on the Web. There were about a dozen search engines, none of them named Google. The big thing for us was government agencies putting databases online -- we could download date from the FEC and FAA, among others. This was a big deal. Oh, and I think CBS had a searchable index of David Letterman's Top 10 lists.
ReplyDeleteIt absolutely boggles the mind how much has changed in such a short period of time.