jwz – jwz.org is now 25

I created my first “World Wide Web Home Page” in March 1993. The original URL was ftp://lucid.com/pub/jwz/index.html. In July 1994, that became http://home.mcom.com/people/jwz/, then http://people.netscape.com/jwz/ in 1995, and finally I registered jwz.org on Aug 2, 1998. It took me a little while to accept that having my email and web presence completely beholden to my employer was perhaps not the greatest plan. That is obvious to you now, but it was the 90s, we were like little children. Why that date, though? Oh, there was a stupid Netscape PR disaster that made the comms team pull the plug on all of the employee home pages. There were five days, Friday through Tuesday, when nobody could download…

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