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The Web in 1994

By jbat - July 11, 2007

Thanks to Philipp!

“In the future, you’ll be forced to compete with companies you’ve never heard of before!” YUP!

Hey, Digital, er Alta Vista, er… (maker of this video, and the first .com in the world, far as I can tell), where are ya now? Damn….

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  • Rocky Agrawal

    Thanks for the blast past from the past.

    I was thinking the other day that I need to put up my 1994 prototype for what an online newspaper would look like on a server somewhere. I’ve got to find that floppy disk. And then a floppy drive…

  • http://www.natebal.com/journal Nate

    Wow 94 didn’t seem like all that long ago until I watched this clip. Thanks for the nostalgia. We’ve come a long way baby!

  • Perry

    pretty entertaining. Especially for us information super highway old-timers ;)

    makes you wonder how we’ll look at a web 2.0 video in 10 years…I’m guessing a “mash-up” will illicit the kind of snickering as that “world wide mall” comment.

  • ned

    It is very nostalgic and highly accurate in its predictions. The voice talent sounds like John O’Hurley who played J. Peterman in the Seinfeld series. Anyone want to make book?