Fri
Wayback Machine
Posted by Marlow Harris under Real Estate
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With the end of 2008 and a new year beginning, PC World took a look back at the Internet’s oldest commercial Web sites — the ones registered way back when in the distant past, in 1986. The biggest surprise? Microsoft.com didn’t come online until May 1991; Yahoo reserved its dot-com home in January 1995; and Google hadn’t grabbed google.com until September 1997.
I tried to find the very first real estate website online and wasn’t successfull, but I did find this old press release from Coldwell Banker claiming to be the first national real estate firm to create its own Internet web site in 1995, though I imagine the web was scattered with smaller individual agent sites prior to that time.
Some of the language is so quaint now:
The Coldwell Banker home page will allow computer users worldwide to instantly access home information, color photographs, and send messages to sales associates, from the comfort of a home or office, seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
Wow.
Windermere had their website online in 1994.
It is amazing how young the internet really is. It has become the fabric woven by our businesses. I had my first website in 1995. I still own that domain (grandproductions.net) It has been interesting watching how intigrated it has become. Great Blog.
cheers
Some of us completed college and graduate school, eons ago, without the internet, without a laptop computer and without flash drives. May I borrow your Brother Typewriter? I’ll return your eight track after I listen to the entire thing to hear my one favorite song….
I graduated college in 2004 and blogs were basically just an online journal type thing where people talked about their feelings. Never did I think we would be using these things for real business!