Does anyone know if the Southern Pacific or the ATSF had a web presence in the mid-1990s before their respective mergers/acquisitions? If so, does anyone know if an archived version exists somewhere of their old websites?
Are not websites a 21st Century phenom? At least for serious businesses; web site was geek speak only back in them olden days
What about Conrail pre-breakup?
The WWW was invented in 1992, became publicly known in 1994 and hit the mainstream in 1995-1996. Back then most people did not have Internet access in their homes (aside from AOL), and if they did it was a dial-up connection. Back then mainly businesses and universities had high-speed Internet access. I was in college around that time so I followed the development of the Web very closely. Some of my first jobs out of college were designing/maintaining websites.
However, the freight railroads’ clients are industries themselves, obviously, so it’s quite possible they might have had at least simple websites around that time.
I might have had a faint recollection of a Southern Pacific website, but I’m not sure.