As a comic sidekick to the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, the Web 1.0 Summit was a good humored slam of what we all thought in the mid- to late-nineties about the Web. The invite says, “We will meet to discuss line breaks, spacer gifs, and the ability to launch links in a new browser window.� Doesn’t that make you feel nostalgic for those simple days? The rest of the invitation, comments (and photos) are also worth a few minutes as they poke fun at the dot-com boom manifesting in a not-quite-networked world
So what would the dot-gov version look like? Using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, I peeked at what FCW was reporting back in the day:
DOD to send Y2K team to Russia (February 1999)
Navy officer in Gulf communicates with family via the Web (February 1999)
DOD plans on-time delivery of DMS (July 1998)
NASA orders all e-mail destroyed (June 1997)
Lotus, Microsoft to lure feds with new 32-bit apps (November 1996)
Yet, some of the stories are timeless. Take a guess: In what year(s) did these headlines appear?
1. NARA seeks funds for digital archiving
2. DOD slashes funding for tech research
3. DOJ requests new resources to fight cyberterrorism
4. OFPP plans to release a draft policy letter encouraging agencies to use more small-business subcontractors
5. Federal/state links loom as hidden risk
Admittedly, these headlines could have been written every year. But these timeless classics actually appeared in 1. 1999; 2. 1999; 3.1999; 4. 1998; 5. 1997.
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