A month later, still in the planning stages, they caught wind of the brand new World Wide Web out of CERN. The two decided to found their own company, Vermeer Technologies, Inc. This hopefully would reduce the cost of development for those corporations, and provide a market for growth by making buisnesses want to have an Interent presence. Therefore, they should create a standardized, completely open server/client combo to replace all the independent efforts. were sinking millions into building their own, completely incompatible dial-in Internet services. His idea was that many corporations such as the Dow Jones, Bloomberg, Apple, etc. Ferguson, renowned computer industry consultant, contacted MIT graduate Forgaard (over carphone, in case you were wondering) to discuss starting a new, internet-based company. This was kind of a pain.Įnter Randy Forgaard and Charles H. If you needed buisness stuff, like stocks or the such, you had to log onto the BBS of whoever had what you needed. At that point in time most internet chatter occured on Usenet groups (think something like Reddit) or BBS systems (think something like old AOL example pictured below). Because this was 1994, when the Internet was still really new. Historyīefore we can talk about goodness and ugliness, we need to talk about carphones and business meetings. Let's talk about why Microsoft FrontPage was for a brief period of time the ultimate content creation tool of the Internet, and why it later fell from grace. In that regard, FrontPage couldn't be beat. Letting the typical home user at the time create websites, express creativity, and conquer the world by storm, all without being forced to learn HTML or CSS or JavaScript. As a dream of what could have been, and a window into what was.

'Everything it touched was ruined with horrific output and proprietary nonsense!' And yes, it was.īut. 'FrontPage was utter rubbish from dark ages of GeoCities' you say. The mere mention of that name is making most (if not all) of you seasoned web devs groan. The newest version came out almost two decades ago! The goal of this is not to convince you otherwise. PLEASE don't use FrontPage for modern web development! It's filled with security vulnerabilities and obsolete standards.

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