What the Internet Looked Like in 1996


	What the Internet Looked Like in 1996

Andy Greenberg

1-29-2008 9:16 PM

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internet, nostalgia

Andy Greenberg says:

Pretty interesting to remember what the Internet looked like 12 short years ago.

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			began archiving the web for a service called the
			<A href="http://www.archive.org/web/web.php">Wayback Machine</A>. 
			They've now archived 55 billion web pages. That's enough web pages 
			that if you were to print them all out using 
			your roommate's printer while he was at class and tape them 
			end-to-end, you could reach the moon and back 28 trillion times. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msu.edu/~karjalae/internet96.htm?hoho"><P align="left">I decided to peruse the Wayback Machine's earliest 
			archives to see what the internet looked like in 1996, when I was 14 
			and evidently had much less free time than I do now. Much to my 
			chagrin, few websites from these early years have been successfully 
			archived, and many of the best preserved ones were created by fast 
			food and soft drink corporations because they were some of the 
			earliest adapters of the internet. They viewed the medium as a chance for inexpensive advertising and 
			invested dozens upon dozens of dollars into it. The results are 
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