The Web That Was

The nostalgia part, what the web looked like, saw for itself in 1995 (year of first TCC conference). Include as well the dawn of wikis, lead to the current vision of wikis as convergence machines (to many people Wiki is equated to wikipedia.)

Related -- Web and Wiki share common ancestor, HyperCard. ViolaWWW, first web major browser, based on Viola, inspired by Hypercard, web was just a piece of it. ViolaWWW inspires Mosaic, Hypercard stack is father to wiki.

Flashback: This was the Internet in 1995 Business Insider

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List of web sites founded in 1994 wikipedia

The very first web site CERN

Some videos about the internet in 1994 link

Collection of 1980-1995 text files about the internet link from texfiles.com including Big Dummies Guide, intros to Archie, Gopher, Wais, Netiquette this is GOLD

The World Wide Web Introduction (1994) link -- cast as a means to connect documents "The World-Wide Web has been described as a 'wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents'."

Why The Web Won't Be Nirvana (Clifford Stoll) Newsweek

Microsoft web site in 1994 link

how 20 popular modern web sites looked like when they were launched link (Whitehouse 1994, Amazon 1995, etc)

1994 The Web Gives Birth to Banner Ads Wired

First International Conference on the web (1994) session titles w3c

Dawn of the Web: An Oral History Boston Globe

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