Post Aw1tJ0V8TShyVtS4eG by elithebearded@fed.qaz.red
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 (DIR) Post #Aw1qVuyU29PvH6dyPw by internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org
       2025-07-11T16:04:07Z
       
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       ☀️ Summer online in the late 90s? Disney hoped you’d start at Go․com.It launched in 1998 as a bold web portal strategy to unify Disney’s online presence—ESPN, ABC, Disney—all under one digital roof. But starting in 2001, it was gradually stripped of services & branding. Now it's just directs to a page about the Disney Company. Check out its short life with the #WaybackMachine➡️ https://web.archive.org/web/20011116082714/http://go.com/ #InternetHistory #WebArchive #SummerOnline
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw1rQsZnceKCLMG8J6 by fistfulofdave@mastodon.social
       2025-07-11T16:12:29Z
       
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       @internetarchive Every company I did web design for wanted their home page to be a portal, it drove me crazy. Do you want to sell your widget or send people somewhere else?
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw1tJ0V8TShyVtS4eG by elithebearded@fed.qaz.red
       2025-07-11T16:29:41Z
       
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       @internetarchive I worked (as a contractor) on go.com before and until the Disney purchase. Behind the scenes it was a language they called Blitzen which was HTML with in-lined C++. They had a preprocessing pipeline that turned that into C++ with large blocks of HTML text.One of the last things I did was help comb the site for the traffic light logo which was being removed for Disney-fication.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw1us1FrlPVAwNZJRI by bobkmertz@techhub.social
       2025-07-11T16:54:27Z
       
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       @internetarchiveI was in my late teens and early 20s when Disney was doing this... It confused me because of all the redirecting and I actually remember thinking that it could be dangerous... I wondered who go.com was and why I ended up there. Had no inkling that domain redirection (misdirection?) would become the privacy and security nightmare it is today.#WaybackMachine #InternetHistory #WebArchive #SummerOnline
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw2AGmlqFeiEZQnC6a by jonpsp@mstdn.social
       2025-07-11T19:46:44Z
       
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       @internetarchive go.com swallowed up infoseek.com, a 90s search engine that was useful at the time. You could set up agents to email you when new results were available for your queries.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw2UaRguKgpC4I8Wm0 by Ryan2TheSmash89@mastodon.social
       2025-07-11T23:33:49Z
       
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       @internetarchive https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExOWJnOWhjYm1wc3c5NmZ2OG84MDF1dHNvM3k0cm5saDVnbHVmZHNueSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/bjV7gIZni4uOc/giphy.gif