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I am not so sure... I think what happened is this: the WWW was everything back in the days. But in the "old days," only 10% of all people were online, the web

by baxtr 4y ago

I am not so sure... I think what happened is this: the WWW was everything back in the days. But in the "old days," only 10% of all people were online, the web elite. Then, AOL came, and the rest came online slowly but surely. The so-called "mainstream" people were no geeks, and these people were "just" ordinary people. Almost all were captured by what you call "big websites". Now, we see the 100% being dominated by the 90%. That's why "Google results are bad". Bad for us! Not maybe (most probably) not for them.

nl 4y ago
Eternal September was Sep 1993. AOL hit the internet in March 1994. Netscape didn't launch until December 1994 (and the WWW was nothing before that. I subscribed to a mailing list with new sites that were released and I'd visit most new websites on the internet on most days with the Cello browser in my uni labs most days). AOL users have been there since the beginning of the WWW. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
- CWuestefeld 4y ago
  My recollection is that the AOL event you reference was only making usenet accessible - a point that makes good sense in the context of the eternal September. But when talking about the WWW, that's a very different story. I think that AOL didn't incorporate a web browser until quite some time after that.
  - nl 4y ago
    The WWW took off when Netscape shipped in late 1994. AOL users could use Netscape from the beginning.