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As I wrote in the welcome post<\/a> when I relaunched this blog as gabeanderson.com 6.0, I registered this domain name 10 years ago today<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Domain Name: GABEANDERSON.COM
\nCreated on: 10-Jun-98
\nExpires on: 08-Jun-09
\nLast Updated on: 30-May-08<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 1996, my Netscape 2.0-optimized Web site looked a little something like the below, and proudly declared that “this is my little contribution to one of the fastest-growing communities in the world: the Internet:”<\/p>\n

The Gabe Zone 1996<\/center><\/p>\n

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In 1998 when I registered this domain, I relaunched it to look like this (this is the about section):<\/p>\n

gabeanderson.com 1998<\/center><\/p>\n

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Ten years might not seem like a long time, but in Internet time, that’s pretty much an eternity. Recall that the Web as we know it didn’t really exist. Netscape 1.0<\/a> (which I vividly recall using on my PowerBook 520c<\/a>) was only launched 4 years prior, in 1994. Amazon.com was still a new company (launched in 1995<\/a>). Ethernet, wifi, and broadband connections weren’t really prevalent; it was during my years in college that my campus made the switch from AppleTalk <\/a>to Ethernet (circa 1997 or 1998). A 500 MB hard drive was considered huge and no one could imagine ever filling one up. My foray into the e-elearning industry in 1999 was with an employer (e-learning pioneer Headlight.com) whose original Web servers were connected to the Internet via two 56k modems (remember those?).<\/p>\n

So just how long ago was 1998? Let’s reflect a bit on some of the other events from that year<\/a>:<\/p>\n