tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post7952000411054487457..comments2024-03-28T17:55:31.180-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: News of the CityCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-17706871402497515022015-05-31T13:37:42.012-04:002015-05-31T13:37:42.012-04:00I am kind of surprised by the statement that the C...I am kind of surprised by the statement that the City’s website was “[c]reated twenty or more years ago.”<br /><br />Very few municipalities had a website in 1995, let alone before that. Many major companies and even newspapers did not have sites back then. And I do not recall the City having a web presence when I got here in 1998.<br /><br />The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine indicates that the domain cityofhudson.org was established in February 2001, which is about 14 years ago:<br /><br />https://web.archive.org/web/20010215000000*/http://cityofhudson.org<br /><br />It’s possible the City might have had some rudimentary site before that hosted elsewhere (say, on mhcable.com), but again I don’t remember one. If so, it was probably little more than a one- or two-page site with basic phone contacts. But again, I don’t recall seeing one, at a time that I was trying to get Hudson residents and politicians to do more online (e.g. with the 1998 establishment of the HANDY email listserv, run with Majordomo software, which predated Yahoo groups and the like).<br /><br />--S.Sam Pratthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05139366555091167364noreply@blogger.com