In 1995 the internet was a baby. Few people knew how to get a domain name, and there were only about 60,000 total domain names registered. The idea of using the "net" for marketing was just beginning. Thanks to the Internet Archive we can still see the sites I created for Polo Towers and my personal site in Las Vegas. Polotowers.com was created and maintained by me until early 1997 when I took a CIO position in Manhattan. The site won the Netscape "Website of the Month" award soon after I added the webcam - only a few webcams existed in those days. Actually the ability to to simply have pictures and text on a page had just begun in the early 90's (*See below)
Polo Towers
https://web.archive.org/web/19970208131954/http://polotowers.com/
JLCC (Jim Luciano Computer Consultant)
https://web.archive.org/web/19970410101708/http://www.jlcc.com/index.htm
This was an early version of what became blogs or Web 2.0. While the page appears similar to a blog, there were no "blogs" as the first use of this word was in 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions (NSI)
In 1993, NSI was granted an exclusive contract by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to be the sole domain name registrar for .com (commerce), .net (network) and .org (organization) Top Level Domain (TLD) names... In March 1995, the company was acquired by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for $4.7 million. At that time, the company managed 60,000 domain names
* A boost in web users was triggered in September 1993 by NCSA Mosaic, a graphical browser which eventually ran on several popular office and home computers.[88] This was the first web browser aiming to bring multimedia content to non-technical users, and therefore included images and text on the same page, unlike previous browser designs;[ its founder, Marc Andreessen, also established the company that in 1994, released Netscape Navigator, which resulted in one of the early browser wars, when it ended up in a competition for dominance (which it lost) with Microsoft Windows' Internet Explorer. Commercial use restrictions were lifted in 1995. The online service America Online (AOL) offered their users a connection to the Internet via their own internal browser. (Wikipedia)
Polo Towers
https://web.archive.org/web/19970208131954/http://polotowers.com/
JLCC (Jim Luciano Computer Consultant)
https://web.archive.org/web/19970410101708/http://www.jlcc.com/index.htm
This was an early version of what became blogs or Web 2.0. While the page appears similar to a blog, there were no "blogs" as the first use of this word was in 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions (NSI)
In 1993, NSI was granted an exclusive contract by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to be the sole domain name registrar for .com (commerce), .net (network) and .org (organization) Top Level Domain (TLD) names... In March 1995, the company was acquired by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for $4.7 million. At that time, the company managed 60,000 domain names
* A boost in web users was triggered in September 1993 by NCSA Mosaic, a graphical browser which eventually ran on several popular office and home computers.[88] This was the first web browser aiming to bring multimedia content to non-technical users, and therefore included images and text on the same page, unlike previous browser designs;[ its founder, Marc Andreessen, also established the company that in 1994, released Netscape Navigator, which resulted in one of the early browser wars, when it ended up in a competition for dominance (which it lost) with Microsoft Windows' Internet Explorer. Commercial use restrictions were lifted in 1995. The online service America Online (AOL) offered their users a connection to the Internet via their own internal browser. (Wikipedia)
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