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The Hill: 'The Internet? Bah!' Remembering 1995, the year of the world wide web. [View all]
The Hill - ‘The Internet? Bah!’ Remembering 1995, the year of the world wide web.
by W. Joseph Campbell, opinion contributor - 02/27/25 10:00 AM ET
It’s now been 30 years since the internet and the world wide web undeniably entered mainstream consciousness.
A remarkable variety of digital mainstays trace their emergence to 1995, an innovative time crucial to the content and character of the digital landscape. In July 1995, Amazon.com began selling books online, although few noticed. The online dating service Match.com got started in 1995. So, too, did the predecessors of Craigslist and eBay.
CNN.com was launched in 1995. The New York Times offered a “special on-line report” in October 1995 during the visit pf Pope John Paul II to the U.S. It was a toe-dipping exercise for the newspaper, which went online in January 1996 as “The New York Times on the Web.”
Hints of social media were apparent in 1995 too, notably with the launch of Classmates.com, which digitized yearbooks and reconnected high school friends long after their graduation.
Online streaming became a fledgling reality in early September 1995, when a major league baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees was broadcast live online, using RealAudio technology. A writer for the Los Angeles Times complained that the audio quality was not “great,” and noted that although “Internet users all over the world had access to the broadcast, the system was only able to accommodate several hundred of them at a time.”
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by W. Joseph Campbell, opinion contributor - 02/27/25 10:00 AM ET
It’s now been 30 years since the internet and the world wide web undeniably entered mainstream consciousness.
A remarkable variety of digital mainstays trace their emergence to 1995, an innovative time crucial to the content and character of the digital landscape. In July 1995, Amazon.com began selling books online, although few noticed. The online dating service Match.com got started in 1995. So, too, did the predecessors of Craigslist and eBay.
CNN.com was launched in 1995. The New York Times offered a “special on-line report” in October 1995 during the visit pf Pope John Paul II to the U.S. It was a toe-dipping exercise for the newspaper, which went online in January 1996 as “The New York Times on the Web.”
Hints of social media were apparent in 1995 too, notably with the launch of Classmates.com, which digitized yearbooks and reconnected high school friends long after their graduation.
Online streaming became a fledgling reality in early September 1995, when a major league baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees was broadcast live online, using RealAudio technology. A writer for the Los Angeles Times complained that the audio quality was not “great,” and noted that although “Internet users all over the world had access to the broadcast, the system was only able to accommodate several hundred of them at a time.”
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