[1] The World Wide Web began to enter everyday use in 1993, helping to grow the number of websites to 623 by the end of the year.
[9] Near the end of 1992, there were fifty to sixty websites, according to a robot web crawl by Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica researcher Guido van Rossum.
[14] SunSITE (Sun Software, Information & Technology Exchange) started in 1992 as an FTP service and was hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[15] It was a comprehensive archiving project that was a collaboration between Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation and the Office of Information Technology at the University of North Carolina.
[15] The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science developed early gateway programs and undertook the mass conversion of existing documents, including the main page for RFCs, TeXinfo, UNIX, and the Usenet.
[19][better source needed] KEK: The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization established the first web page in Japan.
[28] Peter Flynn from University College Cork (UCC) saw Tim Berners-Lee demonstrating the Web at a RARE WG3 meeting.
It started as the website of the company's research and development division (R&D) and was implemented by engineers Sylvain Langlois, Emmanuel Poiret, and Daniel Glazman.
[33] Haystack Observatory's website explained its radio and radar remote sensing mission and provided data access for science users.
[36] IMDb was launched on the web in late 1993 and was initially hosted by the computer science department of Cardiff University in Wales.
[49] The LANL preprint archive provided web access to thousands of papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, and biology.
[53][better source needed] After a start as an anonymous FTP-based art gallery and collaborative collective, The OTIS Project (later SITO) moved to the web in January 1993.
[58] MTV VJ Adam Curry registered the music television network's domain in 1993 and personally ran an unofficial site.
[12] The corporate website is still live at www.mtv.com/ Nippon Telegraph and Telephone or NTT (WWW Servers in Japan (日本のホームページ, Nihon no houmu peiji, lit.
[63] Francis Heylighen, Cliff Joslyn, and Valentin Turchin designed a website for Principia Cybernetica to develop a cybernetic philosophy.
[64][65][66] This is probably the first complex, collaborative knowledge system, sporting a hierarchical structure, index, map, annotations, search, and hyperlinks.
[83] Lou Montulli created The Amazing FishCam which provided a continuous web feed of an aquarium in the Netscape headquarters, via a webcam.
BBC Online started as BBCi in April 1994 with some regional information and content from the Open University Production Centre (OUPC).
[90][91] Bianca's Smut Shack was an early web-based chatroom and online community known for raucous free speech and deviant behavior.
It was launched by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Kazen as an outgrowth of earlier discussion groups on FidoNet, which dated back to 1988.
[100] CitySites, the first "City Site" web development company, created this website in 1994 to advertise businesses and review music and art events in the San Francisco Bay Area.
[103] It is still active at www.classicalarchives.com/ Webdesigner Glenn Davis created Cool Site of the Day in August 1994, featuring his daily pick of a website.
One of the magazine's correspondents, Kenneth Cukier, paid $120 ($247 in today's money) to create the website which featured a web portal with search tools such as Archie, Gopher, Jughead, Veronica, and WAIS.
[12] At the end of 1993, America Online selected it as one of the top-ten news sites in the world; beating Time-Warner's Pathfinder which cost $120 million ($246,681,634 in today's money).
GeneNetwork launched in January 1994 and was the first website on biomedical research and the earliest Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in PubMed.
[12] Later, when Capitol wanted to remove the website, Bechtel fought conventional wisdom that promotions were short-lived and helped establish the concept on ongoing marketing sites.
[169] Its owner, Arman Kahalili, gave novice website creators technical assistance to get them started on-site building and expanding code that was used in later versions of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and other web technology.
[176] This website pioneered shopping cart technology and credit card payments sent via fax to mail order catalogs.
[181] XrayXcellence XrayXcellence.dentistry.dal.ca (also viewed at bpass.dentistry.dal.ca) was created by Barry Pass, PhD, DDS, in June 1994, while he was a faculty member at Dalhousie University's School of Dentistry, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
In response to this web site on the WorldWideWeb - a paradigm shift in the dissemination of scholarly information - hundreds of global email inquiries every year were received from clinicians, scientists, students and the lay public with dental and medical questions.