Most popular websites since 1993

[davemchine]

Interesting https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rul...cquisition

[Speedy]

davemchine wrote:
AOL owned the market but people fled once there was a choice. They had abused their customer base for too long. Yahoo pretty much owned the market after that but they refused to innovate. Their web apps were incredible when released and then they were incredibly dated when discontinued. These are good examples that you can't abuse your customers and you can't stop innovating.

I think with AOL it was more a matter of people moving from the dial-up they offered to cable they couldn’t offer. The company heavily marketed and did have an easy to use graphical user interface that other dial-ups didn’t offer.

[GGD]

I'm trying to remember what was on Apple's website in 1993-1994.

Maybe downloads for Quicktime browser support.

[freeradical]

GGD wrote:
I'm trying to remember what was on Apple's website in 1993-1994.

Maybe downloads for Quicktime browser support.

According to the Wayback Machine, AAPL did not even have a website until late 1996.

https://web.archive.org/web/19961001000000*/apple.com

Which makes sense. I believe the first time I used a browser based method for getting on the internet was perhaps 1995.

I remember going on temporary duty to Osan Air Base in the Summer of 1994, and there was no such thing as a web browser on my Windows laptop, even though Mosaic did exist at the time. I had a Unix account with the communications squadron there, and I would use telnet to connect with the server. This was how I got email back to my unit in California.


Edit: This was the computer server at Osan Air Base in the Summer of 1994! It provided Unix accounts for anyone and everyone who needed internet service and email. Everyone!


https://loomcom.com/3b2/

[GGD]

freeradical wrote:
[quote=GGD]
I'm trying to remember what was on Apple's website in 1993-1994.

Maybe downloads for Quicktime browser support.

According to the Wayback Machine, AAPL did not even have a website until late 1996.

https://web.archive.org/web/19961001000000*/apple.com

Which makes sense. I believe the first time I used a browser based method for getting on the internet was perhaps 1995.

I remember going on temporary duty to Osan Air Base in the Summer of 1994, and there was no such thing as a web browser on my Windows laptop, even though Mosaic did exist at the time. I had a Unix account with the communications squadron there, and I would use telnet to connect with the server. This was how I got email back to my unit in California.
I think you're misinterpreting things. The reason why there's no archive before 1996 is because Archive.org didn't start until 1996, not that the websites didn't exist before then.

One site that I was surprised to NOT see high on the list was AltaVista, that was the very first search engine that I used. In that video it makes just a brief appearance in Jan and Feb 1998 even though it was around since late 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista

[Speedy]

Apple probably made it due to eWorld. Apple included an eWorld floppy for dial-up with every Mac.