1994
Articles tagged 1994.
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1994: Cool Site of the Day and the rise of curated web design
Although the Web is technically limited in 1994, it is a fast-growing network and so curation quickly becomes a design problem. Enter Glenn Davis and his website, Cool Site of the Day.
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1994: Publishing comes to the Web — and design matters
1994 marks the Web’s shift into a publishing medium. As site authors seek control over formatting and design, the WWW-Talk mailing list hosts an early debate over style sheets and presentation.
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What the Internet Was Like in 1994
In 1994, the World Wide Web becomes the default multimedia channel of the Internet. With the launch of Netscape Navigator and early websites like Yahoo! and HotWired, the Web achieves lift-off.
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Netscape in 1994: The Rise of the Webuloids
By the time Netscape Navigator is released in December 1994, the World Wide Web is beginning to overcome bandwidth restrictions and live up to its potential as a multimedia portal to the internet.
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Internet Underground Music Archive in 1994
By early 1994, the Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) has migrated from Usenet and Gopher to the emerging internet platform, the World Wide Web. It is one of the first multimedia websites.
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CD-ROMS in 1994: Bowie, Prince, Gabriel, and Cybermania '94
David Bowie, Prince and Peter Gabriel all have interactive CD-ROMs out in 1994, and have plans for further multimedia projects. But by the end of the year, the CD-ROM format is effectively over.
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Multimedia Gulch in 1994: The Age of Interactive CD-ROMs
Multimedia Gulch is a trendy neighbourhood in San Francisco in the 1990s, home to wannabe rock stars making CD-ROM adventure games. They live fast in a time of slow modems.
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1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo
The founding of Yahoo is one of the iconic Silicon Valley business stories. What’s lesser known is the web development story of Yahoo throughout 1994, based on a scripting language called Perl.
