Yeah, we've been around nearly as long as the World Wide Web itself. This site went online in December, 1994, when there were barely 10,000 websites in the entire world. Most of those early ones are long gone. Now, there are millions, with tens of billions of pages out there for you to wander.

This site wasn't particularly fancy. It looked a lot like most websites in those early days, a lot of text and links to other sites, since there were really no search engines as we know them now. To find something, you had to find someone who'd found it before and put up a link to it. This is an archive of the first website of them all. Ours looked a lot like it.

In 1994, the hot browser was Mosaic, from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Netscape was small but growing. Microsoft Internet Explorer was nowhere to be found (it didn't appear under that name until the following year).

Our first server ran as an NLM on Novell Netware 3.12, a remarkably stable and powerful server operating system that gradually was supplanted by Microsoft Windows NT (for applications and office work) and Linux (for practically everything else).

No Flash animation. No "blogs." No YouTube. No Google. No web mail. No iTunes. No nothing.

That was a long time ago, and we've been through it all.