Apollo and General News

I have been involved, in one way or another, on the world wide web since basically it’s origins into the mainstream around 1993 or so , when the first real browser came out that allowed you to navigate the web in the way it is navigated currently,
with all of the images and so forth. I launched my first website some two years later, and let me tell you I have seen so many changes since that time. After all, at that point in time the larger search engines on the ‘Information Superhighway’ as it was mostly called at that time were excite, Hotbot and Whatuseek, Scrubtheweb and one that no longer exists called ‘WWW Worm’. Yahoo was a just a directory and email/news site and did not evens earh the web yet (although you could search it’s rather limited directory of hand-selected sites). At that particular point in time, your meta tags were generally enouph to get your website to the top because there were so few websites out there. Boy have things changed since then! Broadly speaking,
there were a lot of large portal type sites which no longer exist today. Many went down went the ‘dot com bubble’ went bust around ten years ago. They had been funded by rampant speculation, because back then if you had a dot com domain and any reasonable idea you could get funding, someimes lots of it. I mean, you could get millions of dollars to develop a site, and a lot of those sites never made a penny. For every Amazon.com there were hundreds of sites that went completely belly-up.
As a result, we are now looking at a completely different world wide web than even ten years ago. Of course, a some sites like yahoo have remained a constant staple, but so many sites which were hyped up to the moon are long gone. One factor in the ‘rebirth’ of the web was the imporvement of encryption methods and secure servers. In the 90’s the perception was that it was fairly risky touse your credit card in an internet commercial transaction. With imptoved encryption and security, it is now almost second nature to most folks. In truth, even back then, many of the risks associated
with an online transaction were not much different than using your credit card in more “normal” situations. of course, maybe it was kind of a good thing that people did not use their plastic so much. Right now it seems that a lot of people just need some good credit counseling if anything. I mean good Debt consolidation, Debt Management and general credit counseling are key factors in the world right now. Like I said, it was mainly the perception. But that perception was actually one of the reasons many internet start up companies failed. Many of them had a great idea and sound technology.