Search was pretty awful, so I guess I'm glad ads funded Google.
The "Cool Site of the Day" archives give a good idea of what was online back then:
http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/cgi-bin/stillcool.pl?month=0...
The oldest active site plugged by "Cool Site of the Day" is "The Froggy Page."
http://www.frogsonice.com/froggy/
The only other one from Aug '94 that seems pretty close to original was a site dedicated to documenting thoughts of festival-goers at Woodstock '94:
http://www.well.com/woodstock/
Hrm, maybe we are a little better off... but there is some charm in pages from that era. Even though it's not conventional modern design, it's like outsider art. You can see people's passion, just doing what they care about.
Search was pretty awful, so I guess I'm glad ads funded Google.
The "Cool Site of the Day" archives give a good idea of what was online back then:
http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/cgi-bin/stillcool.pl?month=0...
The oldest active site plugged by "Cool Site of the Day" is "The Froggy Page."
http://www.frogsonice.com/froggy/
The only other one from Aug '94 that seems pretty close to original was a site dedicated to documenting thoughts of festival-goers at Woodstock '94:
http://www.well.com/woodstock/
Hrm, maybe we are a little better off... but there is some charm in pages from that era. Even though it's not conventional modern design, it's like outsider art. You can see people's passion, just doing what they care about.