At high school in the mid 1990s we were asked to use a new technology called the “World Wide Web” for a research project. Yours truly balked and wanted to stick with the tried-and-true volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica. I told my friend that I would give it a go but that the Internet was nothing more than a mere fad, something that would surely pass. Over thirty years later, here I am writing an article online publicly admitting that ridiculous prediction of mine.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://canadianfootballhistory.ca/2026/03/26/the-cfls-early-websites/
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this is amazing. thank you so much for sharing.
i started as web developer in mid to late 90’s. the days if 56k and 14,4 dial up modems, bulletin boards, and the start of browser wars.
i actually remember that old radically canadian cfl site and it was absolutely hideous (well, by today’s standards lol).
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I’m so impressed.
Ah, serious recreational hacker life back in the 1990s …those were the days …I knew one of those dudes, and he was cool whenever I brought in my PC to have it fixed or to buy a custom-built new one.
Most of such activity was private and harmless fun!
But some bojacks thought they could take on the US Government and so forth too, which was a very bad idea.
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