What the internet looked like in 1994, according to 15 webpages born that year – Fast Company
July 9, 2024
What was the World Wide Web like at the start? Long before it became the place we think and work and talk, the air that we (and the bots) now breathe no matter how polluted it’s become? So much of the old web has rotted away that it can be hard to say; even the great Internet Archive‘s Wayback Machine only goes back to 1996. But try browsing farther back in time, and you can start to see in those weird, formative years some surprising signs of what the web would be, and what it could be.
Source: What the internet looked like in 1994, according to 15 webpages born that year – Fast Company
For many this will be ancient story, quite possibly from before when you were born. For me living memory–I think I built my first website in 1995 but I was certainly very online by then.
So here’s some nostalgia for some, ancient history for others.
