1998
Articles tagged 1998.
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What the Internet Was Like in 1998
It's 1998, the middle of the dot-com boom. Portals are advertising on TV, web developers are fighting browser companies, Microsoft and Amazon are gaining power, and Netscape is going open source.
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Search Engines in 1998, Before Google Takes the Spotlight
Google makes the transition from Stanford project to company over 1998, but it is portals like Yahoo! and portal-wannabes like AltaVista that feature in Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Watch this year.
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1998: How Amazon Conquered Online CD Retailers Like CDnow
At the start of 1998, CDnow and Music Boulevard are the leading online CD shops. Then in June, Amazon branches out from books and begins to sell music on its fast growing e-commerce website.
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Launch of BowieNet and the First Inklings of Social Networks
When BowieNet launches in 1998, it becomes the default online community for David Bowie fans. It also anticipates the social networks that will emerge in the 2000s, like Facebook and Reddit.
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Portals in 1998: The Rise and Fall of Excite and Netcenter
1998 is the year of the portal: Excite, Netscape Netcenter, Yahoo, AOL, MSN and others all competing for eyeballs and trying to be sticky. But with so many portals, some will inevitably fail.
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BowieNet: The Inside Story of Its Creation
Part web portal, part Internet Service Provider, part proto-blog — when David Bowie and his web team launch BowieNet in 1998, it is truly revolutionary. Cybercultural interviews one of its creators.
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1998: The Open Web With Mozilla, W3C’s DOM, and WaSP
1998 is the year the web starts to open up. It's when projects like Mozilla and organizations like the W3C and The Web Standards Project begin to steer the web towards a more equitable future.
