Old F1 Teams Still Online??

[telecat]

Somebody trawling the web found that Pacific Grand Prix is still online!!!


http://www.pacificgrandprix.com/

[rednotdead]

optimised for netscape 1.1 Them were the days!

[funkyrobot]

Good find.

[EDLT]

I think that website is older than some of PH's members.

[Vocal Minority]

awesome. love it

[tank slapper]

That isn't the original website. If you look at wayback machine, you can see the current page was put up in 2009. I don't know if that is a copy of the original or if it has been mocked to look old. Shame, as it would have made it one of the oldest sites on the web.

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20040801000000*/htt...

[Nick1point9]

Would they really have had a site in 1995? Who's benefit would it have been for?

[Grenoble]

tank slapper said:

That isn't the original website. If you look at wayback machine, you can see the current page was put up in 2009. I don't know if that is a copy of the original or if it has been mocked to look old. Shame, as it would have made it one of the oldest sites on the web.

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20040801000000*/htt...

Oldest sites? Not by a long chalk. I went to uni in 1995 and the web was quite well established - over 10'000 sites were up by the end of 1994.

[Eric Mc]

McLaren had a site in 1995. I remember looking it up at the time. It was the first websearch I ever did.

[Rude-boy]

Eric Mc said:

McLaren had a site in 1995. I remember looking it up at the time. It was the first websearch I ever did.

I think that you are the only male on the internet Eric whose first ever web search was for an F1 team. Quite frankly I am shocked. I would have thought it would have been to do with aviation!

[funkyrobot]

Rude-boy said:

Eric Mc said:

McLaren had a site in 1995. I remember looking it up at the time. It was the first websearch I ever did.

I think that you are the only male on the internet Eric whose first ever web search was for an F1 team. Quite frankly I am shocked. I would have thought it would have been to do with aviation!

Exactly! I was expecting his first search to be something like 'big flaps'.

[Grenoble]

Eric Mc said:

McLaren had a site in 1995. I remember looking it up at the time. It was the first websearch I ever did.

I can find their first Mclaren.co.uk site from 1998 - I wonder what it was hosted under before that. Mclaren.com has earlier sites, but was an unrelated business.

[FourWheelDrift]

Grenoble said:

Oldest sites? Not by a long chalk. I went to uni in 1995 and the web was quite well established - over 10'000 sites were up by the end of 1994.

He does mean oldest still online in it's original 1995 form. Unless one of those you mention is still online in it's original pre-1995 form.

[Grenoble]

FourWheelDrift said:

He does mean oldest still online in it's original 1995 form. Unless one of those you mention is still online in it's original pre-1995 form.

Ah, I understand. I don't think that site is original 100% - the email address is wrong (check it's domain) - I think someone lifted the orginal code and then bought the domain (Pacific don't exist, so someone must be paying the domain renewal and hosting fees)

It does have some competition in:

http://acme.com/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html

But there are very few, I agree!

[tank slapper]

Grenoble said:

Oldest sites? Not by a long chalk. I went to uni in 1995 and the web was quite well established - over 10'000 sites were up by the end of 1994.

Yes, but very few of them remain as they were at the time.

[IainW]

Grenoble said:

I think someone lifted the orginal code and then bought the domain (Pacific don't exist, so someone must be paying the domain renewal and hosting fees)

Somebody's bought it through GoDaddy according to WhoIs. It says a creation date of 2006, so not sure about it's history before that.

[FourWheelDrift]

Grenoble said:

FourWheelDrift said:

He does mean oldest still online in it's original 1995 form. Unless one of those you mention is still online in it's original pre-1995 form.

Ah, I understand. I don't think that site is original 100% - the email address is wrong (check it's domain) - I think someone lifted the orginal code and then bought the domain (Pacific don't exist, so someone must be paying the domain renewal and hosting fees)

It does have some competition in:

http://acme.com/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html

But there are very few, I agree!

Still online, 1992 version of the worlds first website written by Tim Berners-Lee (the original 1991 website has been constantly updated over the years) - http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hyper...

Info - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/worlds-fi...