Thirty years ago this month, for example, an Associated Press report called the web “a string of data bases available through the global maze of computer networks known as the Internet.” ...

With more than 2.6 million websites already available in 1998, the Web had arrived. Seven years earlier, it was still just one computer scientist’s idea. October 1998 Popular Science article ...

However, none of these services were able to fully adapt to the huge shift that came with the internet and the World Wide Web, which was a wilder place where anyone could create their own website. AOL ...