History of the Mac Web

The World Wide Web traces its roots to 1989, when the Mac was five and Tim Berners-Lee published Information Management: A Proposal in March. A key ingredient in this proposal was hypertext - links within and between documents.

By October 1990 Berners-Lee was working on a NeXT computer to develop the first browser and HTML. However, the first files weren't posted to the World Wide Web until August 1991, which should be considered the birthdate of the Web.

For a lot more details on the conception, birth, and growth of the Web, see A Little History of the World Wide Web.

But our focus is the Mac side of the Web, not the whole thing. The goal of this project is to chronicle the development of as many Mac-related sites as possible, including those long since departed. To this end, we'll need a lot of input and feedback from those involved with the Mac Web over the past years. If you have information to contribute, please email .

In search of...

We're in search of information on the following long-gone sites:

  • Macinsite
  • MacTimes Network, Jason Pierce
  • Macplaza
  • Thessasource
  • MacTeens
  • MacWEEK (before it disappeared inside of MacCentral)
  • MacSoldiers

1990

April 1990

  • Adam Engst launches the TidBITS electronic newsletter, which eventually spawns a site on the Web.

1994

  • Ric Ford launches MacinTouch, possibly the oldest Mac site on the Web.

1995

December

  • Macs Only! begun as "Everything Macintosh" on December 28

1996

March

  • MacFixIt begins as an online appendix to Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters.

September

1997

January 1997

April 1997

  • Low End Mac begins on April 7, 1997, as a dozen profiles of old Mac on Dan Knight's personal Web space.

1998

1999

2000

2001

July 2001

 

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