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The New York Times Introduced a Web Site in 1996, Web 1.0
The Web 1.0 — On January 22, 1996, The New York Times
What’s the Web 1.0?
What’s the Web 2.0? And the Web 3.0?…
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“The New York Times begins publishing daily on the World Wide Web today, offering readers around the world immediate access to most of the daily newspaper’s contents. The New York Times on the Web, as the electronic publication is known, contains most of the news and feature articles from the current day’s printed newspaper, classified advertising, reporting that does not appear in the newspaper, and interactive features including the newspaper’s crossword puzzle.”
The New York Times began in 1996.
Twenty-six years ago. (11:59 p.m. Jan 19, 1996)
“The electronic newspaper (address: http:/www.nytimes.com) is part of a strategy to extend the readership of The Times and to create opportunities for the company in the electronic media industry…"
Web 1.0
It is a retronym referring to the first stage of the World Wide Web’s evolution, from roughly…
