Vin Crosbie of Digital Deliverance notes an anniversary that should be marked today (reprinted from the online-news list):
Today we enter the second decade of multimedia publishing on the Internet.
Ten years ago yesterday, a group of students at the University of Illinois released a freeware program called Mosaic that gave the previously plain-text World Wide Web graphical capabilities, catalyzing it into a phenomenally popular online medium. Within a year of Mosaic’s release, periodical publishers and broadcasters began launching websites.
What have they learned about online publishing during this past decade? I invite comments and feedback to that question on the Poynter Institute’s ‘E-Media Tidbits’ weblog, where I posted a brief about this anniversary.
CNET’s News.com has also published a series about how the release of Mosaic changed the past 10 years online.
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