The Internet In 1996
In 1996 "Yahoo! Internet Life" came in the mail to help us get to know what the internet was about. This 1/1/97 issue listed the top 10 search engines of 1996:. 1. Netscape 2. Yahoo 3. America On Line 4. Webcrawler 5. Excite 6. Microsoft 7. Infoseek 8. Lycos 9. CompuServe 10. McKinley/Magellan. "Readers Digest" was concerned about indecency on the web and launched its own family oriented search engine, www.LookSmart.com. Disney bought Prodigy from Sears. Search engines came on a CD to be installed.. The most downloaded person in 1996 was Cindi Margolis. I know, "Cindi Who?" Visa and MasterCard joined forces to develop secure online buying. America's first web based 24 hour commercial Top 40 radio station was developed. P&G was first WWW advertiser to tie ad payments not to "eyeballs" but to the number of "click-throughs" on an ad banner. The first FBI Most Wanted criminal was caught because of the internet. 46% of American homes had internet service. Before www. mine was dial-up via phone lines. Ooooops, it was a long distance call. The small town in Tx didn't have a local provider. $110 phone bill. Very few pictures, mostly It was UsenetNewsgroups (alt.) in B&W. But worth every penny. I had moved into a new house and ordered an extra phone line dedicated to internet service. With my 28.8Kbps modem, I was very high tech back then. e-mail came as an add-on, I got a bootleg floppy disc with Eudora, but "NetMailer" was coming on strong.
The magazine ceased publication in July of 2002.
Before the world wide web and real search engines came online there was Gopher, Archie and Veronica. Ahhh, the bad old days.
The Internet In 1996
In 1996 "Yahoo! Internet Life" came in the mail to help us get to know what the internet was about. This 1/1/97 issue listed the top 10 search engines of 1996:. 1. Netscape 2. Yahoo 3. America On Line 4. Webcrawler 5. Excite 6. Microsoft 7. Infoseek 8. Lycos 9. CompuServe 10. McKinley/Magellan. "Readers Digest" was concerned about indecency on the web and launched its own family oriented search engine, www.LookSmart.com. Disney bought Prodigy from Sears. Search engines came on a CD to be installed.. The most downloaded person in 1996 was Cindi Margolis. I know, "Cindi Who?" Visa and MasterCard joined forces to develop secure online buying. America's first web based 24 hour commercial Top 40 radio station was developed. P&G was first WWW advertiser to tie ad payments not to "eyeballs" but to the number of "click-throughs" on an ad banner. The first FBI Most Wanted criminal was caught because of the internet. 46% of American homes had internet service. Before www. mine was dial-up via phone lines. Ooooops, it was a long distance call. The small town in Tx didn't have a local provider. $110 phone bill. Very few pictures, mostly It was UsenetNewsgroups (alt.) in B&W. But worth every penny. I had moved into a new house and ordered an extra phone line dedicated to internet service. With my 28.8Kbps modem, I was very high tech back then. e-mail came as an add-on, I got a bootleg floppy disc with Eudora, but "NetMailer" was coming on strong.
The magazine ceased publication in July of 2002.
Before the world wide web and real search engines came online there was Gopher, Archie and Veronica. Ahhh, the bad old days.