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Best of the 'Net - 1997
What was happening with the Internet in 1997? Things were all rosy - the Dot-Com bubble was still inflating with no end of growth in sight. Study a little ancient history (in web years)!
February 28, 2013
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Digital Experience Strategy
- Netscape 3.0 and Internet Explorer 4.0 were in a head to head battle for web browser dominance
- Top Sites of 1997 - Netscape, Yahoo!, Microsoft
- Top Corporate Sites - United Parcel Service, Nike, and Federal Express
- Coolest Sites - Expedia.com and the Onion.com
- Chat Champions - Rosie O'Donnell (AOL), George Clooney (Prodigy)
- Top Multiplayer Game - Duke Nukem 3D, Dark Sun Online, Quake
- 31% of CIOs planned to increase Internet spending in 1998
- 20 million Americans consider the Inetrnet "indispensible"
- A Gateway desktop computer powered by an Intel 300 MHz Pentium II, 64MB RAM, 8.4GB hard drive with all the bells and whistles a gamer could desire cost a cool $5000. Today's Value? Unless you are a collector, the right answer is "boat anchor"!
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