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The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996)

41 points by nishantmodak 17y ago

AlexRodriguez 17y ago
From a recent New Yorker article: "Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago." Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/31/080331fa_fact_alterman#ixzz0jtn6LyhE http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/31/080331fa_fact_...
JocoProductions 17y ago
"address: http:/www.nytimes.com" Aren't they missing a slash or am I missing something?
- AlexRodriguez 17y ago
  My guess is that the address appears that way in the original publication. The web was new then, and the other slash had not yet been deeply ingrained into the culture as it is now.
gphil 17y ago
1996 was quite a while ago if you think about it. 14 years is a long time.
- jsomers 17y ago
  I don't know why, but I always seem to count backward from 2000, so that I end up thinking of 1996 as being roughly four years ago. Gets me every time.
  - kingkilr 17y ago
    I'm not the only one! I feel better knowing there's at least one person out there as crazy as I am :)
- oscardelben 17y ago
  For me, it's almost 2/3 of my life being 23.
bradgessler 17y ago
From the way back machine http://web.archive.org/web/19961112181513/http://www.nytimes.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/19961112181513/http://www.nytimes... Wow... sweet gif!
- nishantmodak 17y ago
  and the headline reading 'Europe Betting on Self-Regulation to control the internet'
- andrewvc 17y ago
  Lol, wow, I totally forgot about server side image maps.
- philwelch 17y ago
  "Please open your window to the width of this line of text."
benologist 17y ago
It's not possible for the NYTimes to have been on the web longer than all the people saying they don't get the web!
PanMan 17y ago
And, the IMHO brilliant spoof by Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/01/new-york-times-ipad/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/01/new-york-times-ipad/ 14 years later, and it doesn't seem too strange..
afterburner 17y ago
> Subscribers will have limited access to archives of Times articles and features dating to 1980, and will be able to copy articles to their own computers for $1.95 each, Mr. Nisenholtz said. I wonder how that worked out for them? Online in 1996, that seems pretty cutting edge to me...

41 points by nishantmodak 17y ago

From a recent New Yorker article: "Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago." Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/31/080331fa_fact_alterman#ixzz0jtn6LyhE http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/31/080331fa_fact_...

JocoProductions 17y ago

"address: http:/www.nytimes.com" Aren't they missing a slash or am I missing something?

AlexRodriguez 17y ago
My guess is that the address appears that way in the original publication. The web was new then, and the other slash had not yet been deeply ingrained into the culture as it is now.

gphil 17y ago

1996 was quite a while ago if you think about it. 14 years is a long time.

jsomers 17y ago
I don't know why, but I always seem to count backward from 2000, so that I end up thinking of 1996 as being roughly four years ago. Gets me every time.
- kingkilr 17y ago
  I'm not the only one! I feel better knowing there's at least one person out there as crazy as I am :)
oscardelben 17y ago
For me, it's almost 2/3 of my life being 23.

bradgessler 17y ago

From the way back machine http://web.archive.org/web/19961112181513/http://www.nytimes.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/19961112181513/http://www.nytimes... Wow... sweet gif!

nishantmodak 17y ago
and the headline reading 'Europe Betting on Self-Regulation to control the internet'
andrewvc 17y ago
Lol, wow, I totally forgot about server side image maps.
philwelch 17y ago
"Please open your window to the width of this line of text."

benologist 17y ago

It's not possible for the NYTimes to have been on the web longer than all the people saying they don't get the web!

PanMan 17y ago

And, the IMHO brilliant spoof by Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/01/new-york-times-ipad/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/01/new-york-times-ipad/ 14 years later, and it doesn't seem too strange..

afterburner 17y ago

> Subscribers will have limited access to archives of Times articles and features dating to 1980, and will be able to copy articles to their own computers for $1.95 each, Mr. Nisenholtz said. I wonder how that worked out for them? Online in 1996, that seems pretty cutting edge to me...