The Internet & CHNM's First Projects

The line mode browser was the first accessible browser for using the World Wide Web and was launched in 1992. 

The Valley of the Shadow was the first well-known digital history project, and was put on the web in 1993. If the web was still inaccessible to most people in the early days of the 90s, how was the site accessed?

Mosaic 1.0 was the first browser that gained popularity with the general public, and was released in the same year as the Valley of the Shadow project. How many people visited the site in its first year of being online, and did they access it using Mosaic? 

American Social History Project and George Mason University collaborated to created Who Built America?, which was finished in 1993. The project that was a precursor to future CHNM projects was not released online, like Valley of the Shadow, but was a CD ROM. 

The Center for History and New Media was founded in 1994. 

Another collaboration with the American Social History Project, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity was one of the earliest CHNM projects to be put on the web in 1997. 

Launched in 1998, History Matters was another collaboration with American Social History Project and one of the earliest CHNM digital history projects.