Also, the Web itself didn’t really exist until '93, so those listed before weren’t web sites at the time. Maybe they had gopher, telnet, FTP, & email servers, but not web.
Usenet, too, probably. It got going around 1980. But yeah, not technically web sites.
The audacity to write a list of 20 interesting websites without including a single clickable link to any of them…
I thought IMDB started life under the .org TLD as a volunteer enthusiast-driven site & didn’t go to the .com TLD until somewhere around the time that Amazon bought them. I wasn’t paying much attention to them so I’m probably wrong, but that’s how I remember it.
Thank you for confirming I haven’t completely lost what little memory I ever had. I’ve suffered from CRS most of my life, so I’m never 100% certain even when I do have a strong memory of something.
I found this. https://time.com/4068036/imdb-history-25th-anniversary/
Thanks, but while I wasn’t aware of that, if someone had told me it pre-dated the web then I’d pretty much have guessed something like that was why. The Web just made things much easier & more accessible for non-technical people to use. BBSs, USENET, IRC, etc. were all in heavy use well before that.
I agree. I’m just sharing an article I found when I saw your post and decided to look into it, because I thought it was interesting.
While the Mac on the left would be able to connect to and render websites from that era, I have my doubts that the IBM XT pictured would be able to do so. Gopher, maybe.
