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What's new: May 1995
Posted by Michael Klassen on January 9, 2007 in Soapbox
Discovered this link to the What's New With NCSA Mosaic: Archives for May 1995. The first version of my company website is announced in this listing.
Windows 95 was still months away, and if you were a PC-type you used the 8.3 file naming convention in those days, which explains why I registered 'thinkcap.com' (back when InterNIC domain licenses were free!) as my first domain when my company was called Thinking Cap.
What else launches on the Web in May '95? The first CBC.ca website; and coincidentally an early web foray by Tod Maffin, back when he worked for the Anglican Church of Canada, is also launched. The Nielsen Ratings company also takes to the World Wide Web that month.
Some observations from this page from the Jurassic period of internet:
- The over-reliance on the word Cyber to describe all things web;
- The routine use of the ~ tilde character for URLs (something I definitely don't miss);
Everything on this page feels so earnest, as though one would have never imagined MySpace in those days.
Tagged: internet culture, web 1.0
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