Best of the Web 1994

Best of the Web 1994

Posted Apr 1, 2008 18:51 UTC (Tue) by stevenj (guest, #421)
Parent article: Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!

It's also interesting to through the 1994 Best of the Web Awards.

A fairly large fraction of the top awarded sites are actually still online, although in many cases you have to do some sleuthing with Google to find them because the original links are long broken. Some examples of still-extant top-award sites include:

• Globewide Network Academy ("Best Campus-Wide Information Service"); their site also received "Best Educational Service" for the Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C++.
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications ("Best Overall Site")
• OncoLink ("Best Professional Service")
• Travels with Samantha ("Best Document Design")
• O'Reilly and Associates ("Best Commercial Site")
• The WorldWideWebWorm ("Best Navigational Aid", now go2.com)
• Le Louvre (now WebMuseum) by Nicolas Pioch ("Best Use of Multiple Media")

A few top-award sites that no longer seem to exist in any form (often not even in the Internet Archive) include:

• The Xerox PARC Map Viewer ("Best Use of Interaction" and "Most Technical Merit") (front page at archive.org)
• NCSA's What's New on the WWW ("Most Important Service Concept") (as of today, JWZ has now resurrected Netscape's What's New page, which includes an archive of NCSA's back to 1993!)
• Eric Richard's Sports Information Service ("Best Entertainment Site", moved to netgen.com, which now is a redirect to spss.com)

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