The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996)
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Re: The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996)
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#3The oldest snapshot on Archive.org is from November 1996: http://web.archive.org/web/19961112181513/http://www.nytimes...
Back then, they even had a low-bandwidth version of the site: http://web.archive.org/web/19990117023050/http://www.nytimes...
The website included various tutorials on how to use it, including a guide that covers the different browsers. None of the browsers listed are actively developed today: http://web.archive.org/web/19961112182937/http://www.nytimes...
edit: A couple of other observations:
- How many other content websites have published for nearly this long and yet have their oldest articles remain on their original URLs? Most news sites can't even do a redesign without breaking all of their old article URLs.
- I like this Spiderbites feature -- a sitemap of a year's worth of articles (likely for webcrawlers at the time): http://spiderbites.nytimes.com/free_1996/
Re: The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996)
#4come on NYTimes, update the iOS app for iPad Pro --- it currently is gigantic (I presume because the screen design is just a scaled-up version of the iPad Air)
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#5I would love to see the complete evolution of the home page.
Re: The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996)
#6The oldest snapshot on Archive.org is from November 1996: http://web.archive.org/web/19961112181513/http://www.nytimes... Back then, they even had a low-bandwidth version of the site: http://web.archive.org/web/19990117023050/http://www.nytimes... The website included various tutorials on how to use it, including a guide that covers the different browsers. None of the browsers listed are actively developed today: htt…
That awkward moment when website you made 20 years ago is better to read articles.
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#7My impression is the mercury news from san jose had an earlier, if paid, presence.
Funny how the NYT wanted to charge nearly two dollars to allow you to print older articles. Asking people to pay for the own digitization.
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#8It's funny because this is the digital version of an article that was printed in a newspaper about that newspaper going digital.
If only they had any idea of the pain they were about to cause themselves. :)
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#9The oldest snapshot on Archive.org is from November 1996: http://web.archive.org/web/19961112181513/http://www.nytimes... Back then, they even had a low-bandwidth version of the site: http://web.archive.org/web/19990117023050/http://www.nytimes... The website included various tutorials on how to use it, including a guide that covers the different browsers. None of the browsers listed are actively developed today: htt…
I checked the markup for the second example you posted here and I found REALLY some weird HTML tags like , , ...etc
Anybody have any idea what are these?
Re: The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996)
#10The oldest snapshot on Archive.org is from November 1996: http://web.archive.org/web/19961112181513/http://www.nytimes... Back then, they even had a low-bandwidth version of the site: http://web.archive.org/web/19990117023050/http://www.nytimes... The website included various tutorials on how to use it, including a guide that covers the different browsers. None of the browsers listed are actively developed today: htt…
That awkward moment when website you made 20 years ago is better to read articles.
Seriously. No big list of social media icons. No big sidebar of "most emailed" and "recommended for you." Actual structure to the front page.
I once saw a scene in a movie from the 1990's where the character used the NYT website to look up an article. My reaction: jealousy.