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GAIL[1] is also the name of a publicly traded Indian Oil Company. Just like most pre-Internet companies that "comes online", they also went with gailonline.com just like how SBI went with sbionline.com. However, for SBI, I saw recently that they have become pretty Internet savvy -- they own the `.sbi` TLD. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAIL
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My favourite 90's style website, that's still running, is http://www.armory.com/armory.html , complete with FTP Index and user finger files.
Can't forget https://stallman.org/ if we're talking about the 90s
From the page source :)
You probably wouldn't want it to be a 8.5MB PNG
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it's he. website name is his wife's name.
The author certainly claims to be Gail themselves; note the reference to “my husband”
https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2006/d200...
"The Respondent registered the domain name on April 4, 1996, named after his wife’s given name, as a birthday present for his wife. "
So yes, looks like was wrong. It's his wife's site (A gift)
It must have been nice to have been alive in the early internet where barely any domains were taken. On the bright side domains have been less relevant since the rise of accessing sites via search engines and the move to mobile apps whose stores don't suffer from the squatting issues.
They were much more expensive in those days IIRC - today they are the cost of a couple of coffees, those days they were more like 25% the cost of a new computer... per year! It was also quite inaccessible in terms of purchasing - contracts, call our sales team etc. Things like GoDaddy were still either non-existent or very nascent in the mid-late 90s when I was just starting out as a early teen online. I had dreams a…
From the page source :)
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it is not "unexciting by Internet standards". what the heck, it is gorgeous.
I find it even technically outstanding. Is that some sort of natural Moire pattern on it's back? Spliced-in turkey genes? I find this cat oddly fascinating.
Reading this felt like a trip through a portal into the nascent Internet in late 90s. I hope this never goes down.
My favourite 90's style website, that's still running, is http://www.armory.com/armory.html , complete with FTP Index and user finger files.