Did Commodore have a website?

[danwood]

Just wondering if Commodore ever had a website in the early 90s?  I didn't get on the web until late 1994, but by then most of the tech companies had a website on-line for a year or two.

I know they owned they commodore.com domain (owned by a travel company recently iirc, but seems to be offline now) and the web was starting to become mainstream by 1994, so did they ever have a web presence?

Wayback machine etc. doesn't go back far enough to check sadly.

[Matt_H]

Nope. I believe BIX and email were the extent of their internet presence.

[bloodline]

"On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone, with no fees due."

With free web browsers only becoming a reality by '94... Commodore had tanked by then. Put bluntly, The web didn't really exist (in a useful sense), until after Commodore failed.

[gertsy]

"On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone, with no fees due."

With free web browsers only becoming a reality by '94... Commodore had tanked by then. Put bluntly, The web didn't really exist (in a useful sense), until after Commodore failed.

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[bitman]

Iirc the only way in 1994, I could get on the internet was at my school with the use of a Unix terminal and gopher. Mosaic was released in april 1993 - so I also doubt that Commodore had a www presence on the internet in 1994.

With free web browsers only becoming a reality by '94... Commodore had tanked by then. Put bluntly, The web didn't really exist (in a useful sense), until after Commodore failed.

[Heinz]

I remember commodore germany had a site on the BTX.
That was some kind of of pre internet network.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildschirmtext

[ChrisUnionNJ]

They were also big on compuserve..:laugh1:


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[danwood]

Iirc the only way in 1994, I could get on the internet was at my school with the use of a Unix terminal and gopher. Mosaic was released in april 1993 - so I also doubt that Commodore had a www presence on the internet in 1994.

That was a full year before they went under though, the reason I asked is I think Microsoft and Apple had presences on the web in late 93/early 94, guess making a website was probably the last thing on their minds in early 94 though.

[Plaz]

And don't forget about Quantum Link starting in the late 80's. Not by Commodore, but was all about Commodore support. (now known as gasp..... AOL)

[gertsy]

CompuServe also had an internet gateway but as mentioned before it was all terminal based gopher and ftp. html and http were out but licensed until the mid 90's.

[Lurch]

in 1994/1995 I was cruzing the internet with my 56K modem, Windows 3.11 and trumpet winsock... and flat rate, one payment/download what you wanted.

My BBS closed down around then, but it's been online again since 2000 :-) Not that anyone uses it, I don't anymore. It's there for nostalgia.