Talk:List of websites founded before 1995
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Here's a list of sites to be folded in (or not, your call):
- www.senate.gov and www.house.gov came online in 1994
- Femmes Femmes Femmes Je Vous Aime !
- The Spot hmm, 1995
- David Siegel David Siegel
- Nathan Shedroff
- Should web-like sites that were part of Prodigy, AOL, etc. from 1986-91 also be included? As a sublist? As a separate list? Coll7 00:56, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Here's a reprint of an artcle from 1994 with some interesting info: [1] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rodii (talk • contribs) .
- I'm thinking that stopping at the end of 1994 (ergo founded before 1995) is a good scope for this list; although there's plenty of good sites which showed up in 1995, the web grew dramatically in '95 and I don't think we could be fair by picking and choosing sites from then, but pre-1994 is a nice small set. KWH 07:53, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- "The WELL" was started as a community dial-up BBS in 1985 in Sausalito, California by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant. It was bought by Salon.com in 1999 and is still run as a community chatroom. [[2]]
- CompuServe has been around as a dial-up portal since 1969. It was purchased by AOL in 1997 [[4]]
- Prodigy was started in 1984 as a dial-up BBS and internet portal. America Online was begun in 1989 as an outgrowth of Quantum Link, a BBS designed for the Commodore 64 and 128 computers. [[5]]
- Granted there were quite a few of them, but is it worth it to include a list of the universities that first put themselves up on the Web? There's a good number of them, but I think they should get some credit here. Domhail 20:35, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
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- Do you have a list? How many are we talking about? If it's hundreds, it might be best handled as a separate page. If it's dozens, perhaps as a single bullet point for each year. Zompist 14:40, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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I'd like the list item text to primarily link to a WP article on the site or the organization... then in the summary text we can include links to the Current site (if still exists) and/or archive of the site (if exists). KWH 07:51, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Agreed as a goal--that's why I left the redlinks above here. It's a work in progress, though. Some of those external links can be turned into wikilinks eventally. · rodii · 13:30, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] jodi.org
Seeing art.net added made me wonder about jodi.org--certainly the first "site as art" site I remember. I can't figure out when they came online,though--anyone? (See Jodi.) · rodii · 19:23, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
- I don't have time to read it fully, but this article indicates that jodi.org was in 1994 or 1995, along with others... if this is something which interests you maybe you can find out for sure and update the Jodi article with this info... KWH 21:14, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
- I surely will do that--it seemed reasonable to ask, though. 1994 sounds right to me. The trouble with jodi is that the site itself was so inscrutable. Maybe there are old domain registration records somewhere. · rodii · 22:38, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] IMDB
- Why is IMDB listed as being founded on 2 seperate years?
- No good reason; this is a list of websites, not databases, so I removed the earlier reference. Zompist 22:44, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I think this might be better off deleted
This seems abritrary using 1995 as a cut off point, POV in that it mentions only some websites founded before 1995 (there were many more websites than this before 1995), and Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 00:25, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
