Fri 2 Jan 2009
Wayback Machine
Posted by Marlow Harris under Real Estate
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.
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:05 am
Windermere had their website online in 1994.
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:19 pm
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
January 7th, 2009 at 6:34 am
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….
January 9th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
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!