Celebrating a decade

by Eszter Hargittai on July 24, 2005

There have been several ten-year anniversaries this year in the Web world. Yahoo! celebrated with its Netrospective, a neat look at 100 Web moments. C-Net celebrated with a bunch of Top 10 lists including a list of Top 10 Web Fads. Fortune has a story on Remembering Netscape: The Birth of the Web on the tenth anniversary of Netscape’s IPO. A dozen of the players tell the story in their own words. These sites offer a fun walk down memory lane or an opportunity to catch up with what you may have missed.

Today is a particularly relevant day for me to post about this, because on July 24, 1995 my first homepage was up and running. Of particular note is that the page at that same location is still available (granted, in a much truncated form). It’s been a fun ride ever since.

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Steve 07.24.05 at 2:38 pm

Congratulations……

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paul lawson 07.24.05 at 4:03 pm

Harris, Jonathan J. came up with a brilliant way to use Flash for taxonomies. Process eventually serves content.

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Robert Gagnon 07.24.05 at 4:36 pm

let me see “process eventually serves content” Ahhhh

I must record that for future reference or use in my next great tech report to some senior manager or other.

Great thought Paul Lawson

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Anita Hendersen 07.24.05 at 4:46 pm

I was on a job assignment at a national lab in the second half of 1995, and they had Netscape browsers on their computers, which were hooked up to the Internet. It was the first time I accessed the WWW and I was addicted. Didn’t get much work done those six months.

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Seth Finkelstein 07.24.05 at 10:22 pm

I remember seeing the start of the WWW back then, and being *impressed*. “This is *real*”, I thought.

Well, a lot of bits have gone over the Net since then. I never took a shot at the start-up goldrush, and I rather regret it now (in retrospect, I did too much free-speech activism for my own good).

So many memories …

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nnyhav 07.25.05 at 8:02 am

Jamie put Fortune in perspective.

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matt k 07.25.05 at 11:45 pm

Happy Ten Year Anniversary from the Northwestern alums residing in Beverly Hills, California!

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Eszter 07.26.05 at 12:48 am

Thanks, Matt, glad you speak for the whole local community now (and as we know, it’s not a small one).:-)

As a follow-up to this post, I would like to note that the next issue of Wired (I don’t see this material on their Web site though, I saw the hard copy today) seems to have several related pieces. So stay tuned for more on celebrating a decade.

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Eszter 07.27.05 at 8:16 am

The Wired issue I mentioned is now available online as well.

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