After 31 years Salon is ceasing publication. The online journalism game is obviously nothing like it was when they started back in 1995. Yikes I’m old.
After 31 years Salon is ceasing publication. The online journalism game is obviously nothing like it was when they started back in 1995. Yikes I’m old.
I am saddened to hear of their closure. As a fellow oldie who began reading them in high school when they debuted (and thought of myself as very sophisticated for doing so), I shall miss them.
I went looking in the Wayback Machine for the earliest archive of salon.com, which is from April 3, 1997 - https://web.archive.org/web/19970403013441/http://www.salon.com/
Amusingly, this domain wasn’t even theirs at the time, since the page welcomes hair salon professionals to the WWW! However, that site links to “Salon Magazine” via the charmingly quaint “E-Zines” link, which links to a different domain, salon1999.com . IA’s first capture of this site seems to be from December, 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981212032509/http://www.salon1999.com/
Are the first three years of Salon archived anywhere, or lost to internet history?