Steve Outing reminisces about 10 years of online news. He doesn’t seem so enthused about what newspapers have done online to date. I would say it’s still early, although no newspaper has made itself a critical part of my online life to date.
I wasn’t at Internet World in 1993, but I was at the Consumer Online Services conference in the fall of 1994 here in San Francisco. That was the first time I ever visited the city, and my colleague Lowell and I also went down to Cupertino to get some instructions about eWorld, the Apple clone of the AOL service. I had helped bring The Atlantic Monthly online on AOL the previous fall (so I guess this marks my 10 year anniversary in online news, too), and our eWorld dabbling ended up going nowhere. We did enjoy the two PowerBooks we were loaned (indefinitely) as part of the arrangement, though!
I don’t remember much about the conference, other than that it was relatively small (the Parc55 hotel near 5th and Market), and Delphi was still a viable competitor in the online services space. That wouldn’t last long… how many people even recognize that Delphi was an online service? I certainly remember dial-up speeds, though… and I don’t miss them. Broadband = progress.