Age of ODP

[kelkid]

Hi everyone,

Could someone tell me what year ODP was first available on the net?

[Guest wrathchild]

The Internet Wayback Machine first archived dmoz.org in January, 1999.

 

http://web.archive.org/web/19990508064303/207.200.73.135/

 

However, it existed as newhoo before that. This is December, 1998.

 

http://web.archive.org/web/19981206143520/http://www.newhoo.com/

 

And as gnuhoo.com. This is earlier in December, 1998.

 

http://web.archive.org/web/19981201072155/http://gnuhoo.com/

 

(By this time they were both redirecting to directory.mozilla.org, however.)

[kelkid]

Thanks

 

Thank you wrathchild. ODP is just a baby. It's hard to believe that it has come so far in such a short time. Way back to me is when a computer took up half a room. Later,in the 80s,my 286 was state of the art and ran my entire company. I was in this forum reading about setting up a directory. It was like reading a foreign language. Half of the words are not in my vocabulary. Wow! I thought I knew something about computers. I don't.

[samiam]

For some good history, you can check out the category for ODP press...

 

there's a posting on Slashdot about "GnuHoo" dated June 13, 1998, and the announcement of the change to "NewHoo" on June 23, 1998... (and other good, interesting, reading).

[Guest wrathchild]

Well, the WWW and the HTML browser is only 10 years old this year, so in Internet time I wouldn't call it a baby.