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The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996)

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From the way back machine http://web.archive.org/web/19961112181513/http://www.nytimes...

Wow... sweet gif!

and the headline reading 'Europe Betting on Self-Regulation to control the internet'

Lol, wow, I totally forgot about server side image maps.

"Please open your window to the width of this line of text."

1996 was quite a while ago if you think about it. 14 years is a long time.

I don't know why, but I always seem to count backward from 2000, so that I end up thinking of 1996 as being roughly four years ago. Gets me every time.

I'm not the only one! I feel better knowing there's at least one person out there as crazy as I am :)

For me, it's almost 2/3 of my life being 23.

From a recent New Yorker article: "Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago."

And, the IMHO brilliant spoof by Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/01/new-york-times-ipad/ 14 years later, and it doesn't seem too strange..

It's not possible for the NYTimes to have been on the web longer than all the people saying they don't get the web!

> Subscribers will have limited access to archives of Times articles and features dating to 1980, and will be able to copy articles to their own computers for $1.95 each, Mr. Nisenholtz said.

I wonder how that worked out for them?

Online in 1996, that seems pretty cutting edge to me...

"address: http:/www.nytimes.com"

Aren't they missing a slash or am I missing something?

My guess is that the address appears that way in the original publication. The web was new then, and the other slash had not yet been deeply ingrained into the culture as it is now.

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