Results tagged “waybackmachine”

We live in an iTunes nation. It's easy to pull a track down to your pod for under a buck. Bostonist still longs for cover art, liner notes, and that masterwork that is a multi-track collection of songs we call an album. Listed here is our much discussed, unbiased by payola, top 25 albums of 2005. After the jump you'll find where some of us stand individually on the subject of the years best. (Apparently...

Bostonist is patiently awaiting our first birthday. It'll be upon us when the temperatures are, gasp, way colder than they are today. As we wait, there is something of a milestone being celebrated elsewhere on the Boston web right now. Boston.com turned ten years old. Geeks and Academics alike may remember the web back when Lynx was the best browser available and only navigated around using text, quite fine when connecting with that fancy Hayes 2400 modem. Netscape came on the scene with it's first few incarnations showing Bostonist a world through images that loaded line by line on our screens. Soon the browser wars would begin with Netscape 2.0 and the release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 1.0. This is all still pre-Google and when Windows 3.1 was the slickest OS on the market. Boston.com, however, became the Boston Globe's home on the web that year, 1995.