In his latest Cybercultural entry, @ricmac looks at the state of the internet in 1996: portals, e-commerce, web design trends, online music, and the emergence of web apps.
https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1996/
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"Of course, what [the British-American academic and author Alice Mary Hilton] defined as cyberculture — an automated society where mankind is freed from drudgery by computers — is very different to what it ended up meaning in the 90s."
"At the beginning of 1995, the internet was still largely the domain of academic-minded geeks and Silicon Valley hippies. But the culture at large was increasingly taking notice of cyberspace.
Throughout 1995, millions more people went online and thousands of companies bought “dot com” domain names.
The web was now open for business."
