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All the old Macromedia Shockwave / Flash sites before Adobe bought Flash and it became the internet’s favorite malware vector. Image credits: TeuthidTheSquid #5
By June 1995, the number of websites had expanded significantly, with some 23,500 sites. [1] Thus, this list of websites founded before 1995 covers the early innovators. Of the 2,879 websites established before 1995, those listed here meet one or more of the following:
April 2015 – Grooveshark, music streaming site, shuts down. [142] August 2015 – Video sharing website Openload.co comes online. [143] The FBI seize the file sharing site ShareBeast and arrest its administrator, Artur Sargsyan. [144] The Recording Industry Association of America considered it America's most prolific file sharing site. [145]
The web seemed simpler in the late ’90s and early ’00s ― cozier and more close-knit, even, with people using it mainly to email friends and family or to find people with similar interests on ...
Flash movie files were in the SWF format, traditionally called "ShockWave Flash" movies, "Flash movies", or "Flash applications", usually have a .swf file extension, and may be used in the form of a web page plug-in, strictly "played" in a standalone Flash Player, or incorporated into a self-executing Projector movie (with the .exe extension in ...
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
Following the relaxation of the US government restrictions earlier in the year (January 14) this removed one of the last barriers to the worldwide distribution of much software based on cryptographic systems. The IDEA algorithm is still under patent; government restrictions still apply in some places. September 14 Microsoft releases Windows ME.
While the term "blog" was not coined until the late 1990s, the history of blogging starts with several digital precursors to it. Before "blogging" became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists [1] [2] and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS).