ABSTRACT
Electronic versions of newspapers evolved in the 1980s in videotext and other various forms on proprietary services such as America Online, Prodigy, and CompuServe before finding their way to the new World Wide Web in 1994 and 1995. There had been newspapers and other news media on the Internet before the Web emerged, such as editions that were found on Gopher networks. The Palo Alto Weekly in California is credited as the first Web newspaper. The twice-a-week Bay-area newspaper debuted in January 1994 (Carlson, 2003), and was soon followed by other Silicon Valley area publications and others across the United States in the next 2 years. The Chicago Tribune debuted on the Web in 1995 and The New York Times came online on the Web in 1996.
