Curated category
Internet properties established in 1995
- Comic Book ResourcesComic Book Resources began its life not as a news site, but as a message board dedicated to a single DC Comics story. In 1995, Jonah Weiland created the…
- The Globe and MailThe Globe and Mail carries on its editorial page a quotation it has never retired. Drawn from the writings of Junius, the line reads: "The subject who is…
- GameFAQsGameFAQs launched on the 5th of November 1995 as the Video Game FAQ Archive, a site with roughly 10 pages and 100 guides.
- Hollywood.comHollywood.com emerged from the digital landscape of the 1990s as a new voice in entertainment news. The website launched during an era when online media was…
- ESPN.comESPN.com launched in April 1995 under the name ESPNET SportsZone, arriving at a moment when the internet was still a novelty for most sports fans.
- Dictionary.comThe domain name dictionary.com first registered on the 14th of May 1995. Brian Kariger and Daniel Fierro founded the site as part of Lexico Publishing Group.
- Salon.comSalon.com launched in November 1995 with an unusual self-description: a "smart tabloid." Founder David Talbot, a former arts and features editor at the San…
- MedscapeMedscape launched on the 22nd of May 1995, before most people had ever bought anything online, before social media existed, before smartphones.
- Internet Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThe Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy reaches 8.2 million unique viewers in any given twelve-month period. That makes it the most visited encyclopedia of…
- LivedoorLivedoor was a Japanese internet company that collapsed under the weight of a securities fraud scandal in 2006, but for a decade before that, it stood among…