best history of websites

We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us!

Internet Archive Audio

• This Just In
• Grateful Dead
• Old Time Radio
• 78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings
• Audio Books & Poetry
• Computers, Technology and Science
• Music, Arts & Culture
• News & Public Affairs
• Spirituality & Religion
• Radio News Archive

• Flickr Commons
• Occupy Wall Street Flickr
• NASA Images
• Solar System Collection
• Ames Research Center

• All Software
• Old School Emulation
• MS-DOS Games
• Historical Software
• Classic PC Games
• Software Library
• Kodi Archive and Support File
• Vintage Software
• CD-ROM Software
• CD-ROM Software Library
• Software Sites
• Tucows Software Library
• Shareware CD-ROMs
• Software Capsules Compilation
• CD-ROM Images
• ZX Spectrum
• DOOM Level CD

• Smithsonian Libraries
• FEDLINK (US)
• Lincoln Collection
• American Libraries
• Canadian Libraries
• Universal Library
• Project Gutenberg
• Children's Library
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Books by Language
• Additional Collections

• Prelinger Archives
• Democracy Now!
• Occupy Wall Street
• TV NSA Clip Library
• Animation & Cartoons
• Arts & Music
• Computers & Technology
• Cultural & Academic Films
• Ephemeral Films
• Sports Videos
• Videogame Videos
• Youth Media

Search the history of over 866 billion web pages on the Internet.

Mobile Apps

• Wayback Machine (iOS)
• Wayback Machine (Android)

Browser Extensions

Archive-it subscription.

• Explore the Collections
• Build Collections

Save Page Now

Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future.

Please enter a valid web address

• Donate Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape

15 Fascinating History Sites That Make the Past Come Alive

These interactive educational websites and tools prove that the re-telling of historical events can be entertaining and fun.

It is difficult to make sense of time, isn't it? Then let's reflect on how impossible it is to do the same with 5000 years of recorded human history. Right now, even the birth of the internet seems ages ago. The Sumerians captured history in their own way, and we in the digital age are doing it with these fascinating history websites that combine interactivity with storytelling to bring our past alive.

If you didn't like history in school, you can make up for those poor grades by enjoying the fifteen sites below. As they prove – history was never dull. We just thought it to be so.

1.  Histography

Sounds, animations, and visuals. What else do you need to "relive" history? Histography gives you all three on an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history , from the Big Bang to 2015. The historical information comes from Wikipedia, and the timeline self-updates as new events are recorded. Move the mouse across the timeline to speed through history. Focus on one historical event to know more about it. Or, use the categories on the left bar to dive into related events.

The timeline helps you understand the cascading impact of related events on the world.

2.  Histagrams

There shouldn't be anything remarkable about a site that combines Instagram and history. Except, there is. A lot of the photos will sum up the value of the site for you. Historical events and photos are presented with tongue-in-cheek comments and they just might make you relive the moments that shaped our world. It's almost as if event makers from the past shared the snaps themselves.

3.  A History of The World

The BBC takes a different approach to explore history. A History of the World in 100 Objects is their tagline, and it works. The objects are spread across the ages from 2 billion years ago to 2010. Many more museums across the UK have added more objects from their own collections. Go from a Woolly Mammoth's tooth to a Honda Civic from 1979.

Also, listen to the excellent series of podcasts that retell humanity's history through the objects we have made.

The page is archived and is no longer updated, but the information stored still makes it a fun history website to visit.

4. HistoryExtra

If the last website is an educational archive, then this one keeps up with the times past and present. HistoryExtra is the official website for BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

The site also produces a history podcast, but the most interesting section could be the Historical Q&A section that takes a question and gets to the bottom of it with historical fact-finding.

For instance, learn if Churchill and Hitler ever meet? And if you think you know all the answers, then try out the Historical Quizzes section.

5. Museo Gallileo

Enter the virtual portals of The Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy. The virtual museum has more than 1,000 objects on permanent exhibition. In-depth descriptions of all objects, a detailed glossary index, and biographies of inventors and artists form the backbone of the exhibits. The site is made up of several multimedia exhibits displayed on their own individual sites.

But the best part is the virtual exhibit of more complex objects like Galileo's telescope and his compass or Leonardo da Vinci's works. The exhibits are organized by themes and reconstruct the historical contexts behind the inventions.

The recommended route is to go through the virtual museum room by room as you would do in the real world.

Show me "everything." This simple concept explains the function of this educational site from the UK . The creators know that browsing through all museum galleries and archives can take a few lifetimes. The site is a shortcut through the historical bylanes and the dusty corners with games, videos, stories, and homework help. Sort through the collections by topic or tag and find out where they are being displayed.

Show Me is an educational tool for teachers and students, but there's a lot to discover for any adult interested in history. The short descriptions can spark more searches, or you can directly visit the exhibitions if they are nearby for a family day out.

7. History Explorer

The Smithsonian is the largest museum complex in the world. It may be the cradle of American history but many of the exhibits can be connected to the rest of the world. The History Explorer is an interactive exhibit curated from the 3 million items in the Museum's collections.

It is meant for use by K-12 teachers and students, afterschool program providers, families, and anyone interested in lifelong learning. Use the filtering tools on the right side of the screen to narrow your results by grade, resource type, or historical era.

Learn about American history by investigating the artifacts and the stories behind them. You can take a virtual look at the Gunboat Philadelphia, a warship sunk in Lake Champlain in 1776. Or direct an interactive movie of your own with images from an online image database.

8. Mission US

Mission US is an interactive exploration of US history for middle and high school classrooms. The four interactive games are designed to immerse the players in rich, historical settings. You have to make everyday choices to understand how ordinary people experienced the past. One of the objectives of the site is to help relive the past and develop historical empathy.

For example: In the "City of Immigrants," you learn how to survive in New York's Lower East Side as Lena, a young Jewish immigrant from Russia. Lena works long hours in a factory for little money in order to bring her parents to America. She gets caught up in the growing labor movement in the early part of the 20 th Century.

9. History of Vaccines

It's as good a time (or bad) as any to educate ourselves on the role vaccines play in public health. This educational resource takes you through the history of immunizations and how they have ensured life for a large section of our population.

The Coronavirus informative articles and the Coronavirus Timeline are timely reads too.

10. A History of The Second World War in 100 Objects

Just like the Show.Me, this Dutch site presents the best collections from 25 war and resistance museum s across the Netherlands. It is a short behind the scenes look at objects of historical value that also became symbols of The Second World War . Click on the thumbnails or use the dropdown index.

One of the more interesting items on display is a foldable motorcycle that was airdropped during the Battle of Arnhem.

11. Royal Constellations

Royal marriages were strategic imperatives and an exercise to preserve their bloodlines. Someone rarely married a commoner. Use this interactive historical website to discover the vast royal family tree as each marriage between kingdoms led to entangled relationships.

The visual doesn't go very far into the past but offers enough connections to help you understand how all ten of today's European hereditary royal leaders can be connected to each other through their ancestors.

12. Smarthistory

Smarthistory wants to make public art accessible to everyone. The site showcases public art history with thousands of free videos and essays written by scholars who are art historians, archaeologists, and museum curators.

Use the search box or the Histories of Art pulldown menu at the top of every page to explore the resources on the site. You can also cite the resources in an essay or paper as the site is an open educational resource.

13. David Rumsey Map Collection

The American map collector is among the well-known map collectors and cartographers in the world. His 63,000-strong historical map collection is perhaps the largest resource available on the web for the public. Here you can find rare maps from the 16th through the 21st Century of America, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific, and the world. Many more are being added every day as the total collection is 150,000 strong.

Maps are convenient places to merge the ancient with the modern. Use the LUNA Browser to view multiple maps from different time periods. Create your own collections for studying history, art, genealogy, explorations, and your own family history.

14. Epic History TV

YouTube is the television you wished you had in school back in the day. The Epic History TV channel on YouTube is just one of the places to catch up on the history of our fascinating past.

The trailer above will tell you all about the effort that goes into the production. Start with any video and follow the stories told in one single video or in a series.

15. Stuff You Missed in History Class

Tracy and Holly forgive you for hating history in school. Thanks to their podcasts, you can redeem yourself easily. These history podcasts are easy to listen to and explore in-depth the stories that make up some of the most interesting parts of history.

The site is part of the How Stuff Works network.

Is History Fascinating for You?

Time is a rollercoaster. History gives us a firmer footing. We not only learn about what has shaped our present but also get to understand how certain actions can impact our future. This in turn shapes our worldview. So, don't let history turn you off. Try these history-related apps too and see for yourself that history can be fun.

• Skip to main content
• Keyboard shortcuts for audio player

A Look Back At The Very First Website Ever Launched, 30 Years Later

Josie Fischels

This picture taken on April 30, 2013 in Geneva shows a 1992 copy of the world's first web page. Fabrice Coffrini /AFP via Getty Images hide caption

This picture taken on April 30, 2013 in Geneva shows a 1992 copy of the world's first web page.

On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world.

And while perhaps not as exciting or immersive as some of the nearly 1.9 billion websites that exist today, it makes sense that the first web page launched on the good ol' W3 was, well, instructions about how to use it.

The first website contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. On it, people could find out how to create web pages and learn about hypertext (coded words or phrases that link to content).

Berners-Lee created the web for the same reason a lot of us visit websites today: to make life just a little bit easier. For him, the problem to be solved rested in computers themselves: there was no way to share information between different devices.

The Father Of The Web Is Selling The Source Code As An NFT

And so in 1989, Berners-Lee proposed the idea for an information management system to his managers at CERN. The system would use hypertext to connect documents on separate computers connected to the Internet.

At first, the managers' response was something along the lines of cool, but no thanks. But when Berners-Lee returned with a new-and-improved proposal a year later, the computer scientist was granted permission to work on the project. By 1991, it was ready to launch. Berners-Lee had developed HTML, HTTP and URLs — the building blocks for creating websites — all on his NeXT computer designed by Steve Jobs.

And so, with the creation of a single web page, the World Wide Web was born. And it's grown quite a bit since then. There were 10 websites by 1992, 3,000 websites by 1994 (after the W3 became public domain), and 2 million by the time the search engine Google made its debut in 1996.

It's worth mentioning that the first website was also lost . Excited by progress and unable at the time to fathom the true scope of the web's abilities, computer scientists didn't archive many of the very first websites. A project to restore the world's first web page was launched in 2013 by CERN.

But not to worry: It's back now, even at its origina l URL , for you to explore.

Josie Fischels is an intern on NPR's News Desk.

• World Wide Web
• Tim Berners-Lee

World Wide Web Foundation

• History of the Web
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.

Image: © CERN

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist. He was born in London, and his parents were early computer scientists, working on one of the earliest computers.

Growing up, Sir Tim was interested in trains and had a model railway in his bedroom. He recalls :

“I made some electronic gadgets to control the trains. Then I ended up getting more interested in electronics than trains. Later on, when I was in college I made a compute r out of an old television set.”

After graduating from Oxford University, Berners-Lee became a software engineer at CERN , the large particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Scientists come from all over the world to use its accelerators, but Sir Tim noticed that they were having difficulty sharing information.

“In those days, there was different information on different computers, but you had to log on to different computers to get at it. Also, sometimes you had to learn a different program on each computer. Often it was just easier to go and ask people when they were having coffee…”, Tim says .

Tim thought he saw a way to solve this problem – one that he could see could also have much broader applications. Already, millions of computers were being connected together through the fast-developing internet and Berners-Lee realised they could share information by exploiting an emerging technology called hypertext.

In March 1989, Tim laid out his vision for what would become the web in a document called “ Information Management: A Proposal ”. Believe it or not, Tim’s initial proposal was not immediately accepted. In fact, his boss at the time, Mike Sendall , noted the words “Vague but exciting” on the cover. The web was never an official CERN project, but Mike managed to give Tim time to work on it in September 1990. He began work using a NeXT computer, one of Steve Jobs’ early products.

By October of 1990, Tim had written the three fundamental technologies that remain the foundation of today’s web (and which you may have seen appear on parts of your web browser):

• HTML: HyperText Markup Language. The markup (formatting) language for the web.
• URI: Uniform Resource Identifier. A kind of “address” that is unique and used to identify to each resource on the web. It is also commonly called a URL.
• HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Allows for the retrieval of linked resources from across the web.

Tim also wrote the first web page editor/browser (“WorldWideWeb.app”) and the first web server (“httpd“). By the end of 1990, the first web page was served on the open internet, and in 1991, people outside of CERN were invited to join this new web community.

As the web began to grow, Tim realised that its true potential would only be unleashed if anyone, anywhere could use it without paying a fee or having to ask for permission.

He explains : “Had the technology been proprietary, and in my total control, it would probably not have taken off. You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.”

So, Tim and others advocated to ensure that CERN would agree to make the underlying code available on a royalty-free basis, forever. This decision was announced in April 1993 , and sparked a global wave of creativity, collaboration and innovation never seen before. In 2003, the companies developing new web standards committed to a Royalty Free Policy for their work. In 2014, the year we celebrated the web’s 25th birthday , almost two in five people around the world were using it.

Tim moved from CERN to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994 to found the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international community devoted to developing open web standards . He remains the Director of W3C to this day.

The early web community produced some revolutionary ideas that are now spreading far beyond the technology sector:

• Decentralisation: No permission is needed from a central authority to post anything on the web, there is no central controlling node, and so no single point of failure … and no “kill switch”! This also implies freedom from indiscriminate censorship and surveillance.
• Non-discrimination: If I pay to connect to the internet with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or a greater quality of service, then we can both communicate at the same level. This principle of equity is also known as Net Neutrality.
• Bottom-up design: Instead of code being written and controlled by a small group of experts, it was developed in full view of everyone, encouraging maximum participation and experimentation.
• Universality: For anyone to be able to publish anything on the web, all the computers involved have to speak the same languages to each other, no matter what different hardware people are using; where they live; or what cultural and political beliefs they have. In this way, the web breaks down silos while still allowing diversity to flourish.
• Consensus: For universal standards to work, everyone had to agree to use them. Tim and others achieved this consensus by giving everyone a say in creating the standards, through a transparent, participatory process at W3C.

New permutations of these ideas are giving rise to exciting new approaches in fields as diverse as information (Open Data), politics (Open Government), scientific research (Open Access), education, and culture (Free Culture). But to date we have only scratched the surface of how these principles could change society and politics for the better.

In 2009, Sir Tim co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation with Rosemary Leith. The Web Foundation is fighting for the web we want: a web that is safe, empowering and for everyone.

Please do explore our site and our work . We hope you’ll be inspired by our vision and decide to take action. Remember, as Tim tweeted during the Olympics Opening Ceremony in 2012, “This is for Everyone” .

This is for everyone #london2012 #oneweb #openingceremony @webfoundation @w3c — Tim Berners-Lee (@timberners_lee) July 27, 2012

Important Note: This text is intended as a brief introduction to the history of the web. For a more detailed account, you might want to consider reading:

A Little History of the World Wide Web

• W3C’s 10th Anniversary ( timeline )
• “Weaving the Web” by Tim Berners-Lee
• Frequently Asked Questions , and Answers for Young People , by Sir Tim Berners-Lee on W3C website.
• With the web becoming an increasingly monitored space, each of us has a role to play in safeguarding online privacy
• Online Gender-Based Violence Story – Maria, Costa Rica
• Online Gender-Based Violence Story – Aisha, Nigeria

Sign up for news, events and campaign updates.

Support our work to deliver a web for everyone..

CERN Accelerating science

• short history web

A short history of the Web

The Web has grown to revolutionise communications worldwide

Where the Web was born

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

CERN is not an isolated laboratory, but rather the focal point for an extensive community that includes more than 17 000 scientists from over 100 countries. Although they typically spend some time on the CERN site, the scientists usually work at universities and national laboratories in their home countries. Reliable communication tools are therefore essential.

The basic idea of the WWW was to merge the evolving technologies of computers, data networks and hypertext into a powerful and easy to use global information system.

How the Web began

Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first proposal for the World Wide Web in March 1989 and his second proposal in May 1990 . Together with Belgian systems engineer Robert Cailliau, this was formalised as a management proposal in November 1990. This outlined the principal concepts and it defined important terms behind the Web. The document described a "hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could be viewed by “browsers”.

By the end of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee had the first Web server and browser up and running at CERN, demonstrating his ideas. He developed the code for his Web server on a NeXT computer. To prevent it being accidentally switched off, the computer had a hand-written label in red ink: " This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!! "

info.cern.ch was the address of the world's first website and Web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. The first Web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

This page contained links to information about the WWW project itself, including a description of hypertext, technical details for creating a Web server, and links to other Web servers as they became available.

The WWW design allowed easy access to existing information and an early web page linked to information useful to CERN scientists (e.g. the CERN phone book and guides for using CERN’s central computers). A search facility relied on keywords - there were no search engines in the early years.

Berners-Lee’s original Web browser running on NeXT computers showed his vision and had many of the features of current Web browsers. In addition, it included the ability to modify pages from directly inside the browser – the first Web editing capability. This screenshot shows the browser running on a NeXT computer in 1993 .

The Web extends

Only a few users had access to a NeXT computer platform on which the first browser ran, but development soon started on a simpler, ‘line-mode’ browser , which could run on any system. It was written by Nicola Pellow during her student work placement at CERN.

In 1991, Berners-Lee released his WWW software. It included the ‘line-mode’ browser, Web server software and a library for developers. In March 1991, the software became available to colleagues using CERN computers. A few months later, in August 1991, he announced the WWW software on Internet newsgroups and interest in the project spread around the world.

Going global

Thanks to the efforts of Paul Kunz and Louise Addis, the first Web server in the US came online in December 1991, once again in a particle physics laboratory: the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California. At this stage, there were essentially only two kinds of browser. One was the original development version, which was sophisticated but available only on NeXT machines. The other was the ‘line-mode’ browser, which was easy to install and run on any platform but limited in power and user-friendliness. It was clear that the small team at CERN could not do all the work needed to develop the system further, so Berners-Lee launched a plea via the internet for other developers to join in. Several individuals wrote browsers, mostly for the X-Window System. Notable among these were MIDAS by Tony Johnson from SLAC, Viola by Pei Wei from technical publisher O'Reilly Books, and Erwise by Finnish students from Helsinki University of Technology.

Early in 1993, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois released a first version of its Mosaic browser. This software ran in the X Window System environment, popular in the research community, and offered friendly window-based interaction. Shortly afterwards the NCSA released versions also for the PC and Macintosh environments. The existence of reliable user-friendly browsers on these popular computers had an immediate impact on the spread of the WWW. The European Commission approved its first web project (WISE) at the end of the same year, with CERN as one of the partners. On 30 April 1993, CERN made the source code of WorldWideWeb available on a royalty-free basis, making it free software. By late 1993 there were over 500 known web servers, and the WWW accounted for 1% of internet traffic, which seemed a lot in those days (the rest was remote access, e-mail and file transfer). 1994 was the “Year of the Web”. Initiated by Robert Cailliau, the First International World Wide Web conference was held at CERN in May. It was attended by 380 users and developers , and was hailed as the “Woodstock of the Web”.

As 1994 progressed, stories about the Web hit the media. A second conference, attended by 1300 people, was held in the US in October, organised by the NCSA and the newly-formed International WWW Conference Committee (IW3C2). By the end of 1994, the Web had 10 000 servers - 2000 of which were commercial - and 10 million users. Traffic was equivalent to shipping the entire collected works of Shakespeare every second. The technology was continually extended to cater for new needs. Security and tools for e-commerce were the most important features soon to be added.

Open standards

An essential point was that the web should remain an open standard for all to use and that no-one should lock it up into a proprietary system. In this spirit, CERN submitted a proposal to the Commission of the European Union under the ESPRIT programme: “WebCore”. The goal of the project was to form an international consortium, in collaboration with the US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1994, Berners-Lee left CERN to join MIT and founded the International World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Meanwhile, with approval of the LHC project clearly in sight, CERN decided that further web development was an activity beyond the laboratory’s primary mission. A new European partner for W3C was needed.

The European Commission turned to the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Controls (INRIA), to take over CERN's role. In April 1995, INRIA became the first European W3C host, followed by Keio University of Japan (Shonan Fujisawa Campus) in Asia in 1996. In 2003, ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics) took over the role of European W3C Host from INRIA. In 2013, W3C announced Beihang University as the fourth Host. In September 2018, there were more than 400 member organisations from around the world.

Read our research on: Abortion | Podcasts | Election 2024

Regions & Countries

World wide web timeline.

Since its founding in 1989, the World Wide Web has touched the lives of billions of people around the world and fundamentally changed how we connect with others, the nature of our work, how we discover and share news and new ideas, how we entertain ourselves and how communities form and function.

The timeline below is the beginning of an effort to capture both the major milestones and small moments that have shaped the Web since 1989. It is a living document that we will update with your contributions. To suggest an item to add to the timeline, please  message us .

• 42% of American adults have used a computer.
• Tim Berners-Lee develops the first Web browser WorldWideWeb .
• Archie , the first tool to search the internet is developed by McGill University student Alan Emtage.
• The term “ surfing the internet ” is coined and popularized.

• The line-mode browser launches . It is the first readily accessible browser for the World Wide Web.
• CERN places its World Wide Web technology in the public domain , donating it to the world.
• The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) releases Mosaic 1.0 , the first web browser to become popular with the general public. “The web as we know it begins to flourish,” Wired later writes .
• The New York Times writes about the Web browser Mosaic and the World Wide Web for the first time. “Think of it as a map to the buried treasures of the Information Age.”
• Marc Andreessen  proposes  the IMG HTML tag to allow the display of images on the Web.

• 11 million American households are “ equipped to ride the information superhighway .”

• President Bill Clinton’s White House comes online .
• Yahoo! is created  by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo. They originally named the site “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.”
• Two lawyers post the first massive, commercial spam message  with the subject “Green Card Lottery -Final One?”
• 18 million American homes are now online, but only 3% of online users have ever signed on to the World Wide Web .

• Craig Newmark starts craigslist , originally an email list of San Francisco events.
• Match.com, the first online dating site, launches .
• Entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar launches eBay , originally named “AuctionWeb.” He lists the first item for sale: a broken laser pointer . A collector purchases it for $14.83.
• Chris Lamprecht becomes the first person to be banned from the internet by judicial decree. “I told the judge computers were my life,” Lamprecht later recalled.
• Netscape IPO starts the gold rush mentality for Web startups.
• Microsoft releases Windows 95  and the first version of Internet Explorer .
• Web hosting service GeoCities launches.
• 77% of online users send or receive e-mail at least once every few weeks, up from 65% in 1995.

• HoTMaiL launches as  one of the world’s first Webmail services , its name a reference to the HTML internet language used to build webpages.
• The Dancing Baby , a 3D animation, becomes one of the first viral videos.

• Netflix  launches as a company  that sends DVDs to homes via mail.
• Go Daddy launches as Jomax Technologies.
• Google.com  registers as a domain .
• Jorn Barger  becomes the first person to use the term “Weblog”  to describe the list of links on his website.

• AOL launches AOL 4.0 and inundates American homes with CD-ROM mailers . AOL membership jumps from 8 million to 16 million members.
• The Internet Corporations for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) takes over responsibility for the coordination of the global internet’s systems of unique identifiers.
• Oxford Dictionary adds “spam” and “digerati.”
• Pew Research Center tests online polling  with mixed results.
• MP3 downloading service Napster launches, overloading high-speed networks in college dormitories. Many colleges ban the service and it is later shut down for enabling the illegal sharing of music files.
• Yahoo! acquires GeoCities for $3.6 billion.
• 43% of internet users say they would miss going online “a lot,” up from 32% in 1995.
• 78% of internet users who download music  don’t think it’s stealing  to save music files to their computer hard drives.

40 million Americans – or 48% of internet users – have purchased a product online .

• 32% of internet users (over 30 million people)  sent e-greeting cards to loved ones and friends.

• AOL acquires Time Warner for $165 billion.  New York Times  says “it could be the internet companies that do the buying and the old media that sell out.”
• Only 3% of internet users say they got most of their information about the 9/11 attacks and the aftermath from the internet.

The average internet user spends  83 minutes  online.

• Jimmy Wales launches  Wikipedia . Users write over 20,000 encyclopedia entries in the first year.
• 55 million people now go online from work  and 44% of those who have internet access at work say their use of the internet helps them do their jobs.

• Microsoft launches Xbox Live , its online multiplayer gaming service.”Critics scoffed at the idea, noting how uncommon broadband connections were at the time.”
• Skype, a voice-over-IP calling and instant messaging service, launches and quickly becomes a verb, as in “Skype me.”
• Professional networking site LinkedIn launches.
• MySpace.com  is founded  and quickly adopted by musicians seeking to share music and build their fan bases.
• President George W. Bush signs the CAN-SPAM Act into law , establishing the first national standards for the sending of commercial email.
• WordPress blog publishing system created.
• 11% of American internet users follow the returns on election night online. One-in-ten internet users sign up for political email newsletters and news alerts during the campaign.

• Google starts trading on the NASDAQ at $85 a share .
• Social news website Digg launches. Digg users vote to “digg up” links that they like and “bury” down those they don’t.
• Mozilla releases Firefox 1.0 .
• Massively multiplayer online role-playing game(MMORPG)  World of Warcraft launches.
• 8% of adult American internet users say they participate in sports fantasy leagues online.
• 9% of internet users (13 million Americans)  went online to donate money  to the victims of Gulf Coast hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

About one-in-six online adults – 25 million people – have sold something online .

• Broadband connections surpass dial-up connections.
• Community news site  Reddit  is founded. It is bought by Conde Nast a year later for $20 million.
• Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. buys MySpace for $580 million and  sells it  in 2011 for $35 million.

• The late Senator Ted Stevens describes the internet as “a series of tubes,” during a 2006 speech on net neutrality. His quote is  mocked by Boing Boing  and the  Daily Show  and inspires YouTube remixes.

• Twitter launches. Founder Jack Dorsey sends the first tweet: “just setting up my twttr”

just setting up my twttr — jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) March 21, 2006

• 36% of American online adults consult Wikipedia .

• 36% of Americans say they would have a hard time giving up their Blackberry or other wireless email device, up from 6% in 2002.

• Estonia becomes the world’s first country to use internet voting in a parliamentary election .
• Three-quarters (74%) of internet users – or 55% of the entire U.S. adult population — say they went online during the presidential election to take part in or get news and information about the campaign.
• 19% of cellphone owners say they have gone online with their phones .
• Google releases the Chrome Web browser .
• HTML5  is introduced.
• Deal-of-the-day website Groupon launches.
• Apple launches its App Store  with 552 applications.
• Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion , but the two companies  cannot agree on a purchase price .
• World of Warcraft hits 11.5 million subscribers worldwide. Guinness Book of World Records names it the most popular MMORPG .
• 69% of Americans turn to the internet to cope with and understand the recession .
• Microsoft’s  Bing  search engine launches.
• Twitter raises $98 million from investors,  valuing the company at a whopping $1 billion .
• The Web is transfixed by the tale of a six-year-old boy  flying over Colorado  in a weather balloon. The story later proves to be a hoax .
• Kanye West’s VMA outburst sparks an internet meme .

• 35% of adults have cell phones with apps , but only two-thirds actually use them.
• Social photo-sharing sites Pinterest and Instagram launch.
• Wikileaks collaborates with major media organizations to release U.S. diplomatic cables .
• Ex-Facebook employees launch user-based question and answer site Quora .
• 15% of social media-using teens say they have been the target of online meanness .
• 68% of all Americans say the internet has had a major impact on the ability of groups to communicate with members .
• LinkedIn reaches 100 million users and debuts on NYSE .
• Microsoft buys Skype  for $8.5 billion.
• Google+ launches .
• Young Egyptians use the hashtags #Egypt and #Jan25 on Twitter to spread the word about the Egyptian Revolution.  The government responds by shutting down the internet .

• 66% of internet users use Facebook and 12% use Instagram .
• Among the 13% of US adults who made a financial contribution to a presidential candidate, 50% donated online or via email .
• Facebook reaches 1 billion monthly active users, making it the dominant social network worldwide. Some analysts start calling it “ Facebookistan .” The company buys Instagram  for $1 billion and  debuts on NASDAQ at $38 a share.

• Ecommerce sales top $1 trillion worldwide .
• The Internet Society founds the Internet Hall of Fame  to “celebrate people who bring the internet to life.”
• A majority (56%) of Americans  now own a smartphone of some kind .
• 51% of U.S. adults bank online .

• Apple says app store downloads  top 40 billion , with 20 billion in 2012 alone.
• Twitter files for its long-awaited IPO . Shares soar 73% above their IPO price of $26 a share on the first day of trading.

We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale. — Twitter (@Twitter) September 12, 2013

• 45% of internet users ages 18-29 in serious relationships say the internet has had an impact on their relationship .
• Facebook buys messaging app Whatsapp for $19 billion.

Sign up for our Internet, Science and Tech newsletter

New findings, delivered monthly

Table of Contents

The future of digital spaces and their role in democracy, experts say the ‘new normal’ in 2025 will be far more tech-driven, presenting more big challenges, shareable quotes from experts about the next 50 years of digital life, experts optimistic about the next 50 years of digital life, the future of technology, most popular.

About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts .

The 15 Most Influential Websites of All Time

T he web, or “world wide web” as we used to say, turns 27 years old on December 20. On that date, nearly three decades ago, British engineer and scientist Tim Berners-Lee launched the world’s first website , running on a NeXT computer at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland.

The website wasn’t much at the time, just a few sentences organized into topic areas that laid out the arguments for the concept. But it established vital first principles still essential to the web as it exists today: the notion of hyperlinks that reimagined documents (and eventually any form of media) as nonlinear texts, and the ability for anyone, anywhere in the world, to peruse that content by way of a browser: a piece of software that cohered to universal formatting standards.

It’s been a wild ride since. In the mid-1990s VRML (or as it was then known, Virtual Reality Markup Language) seemed on the verge of transforming the web. Adobe’s Shockwave and Flash media players were at one point multimedia stars in the ascendant. Who could have known in those early days, that by 2017, a landscape once loomed over by companies like Microsoft (Internet Explorer) and Netscape (Navigator) would fractionalize and give way to totally new players like Google (Chrome)?

Here’s TIME’s collection of the 15 websites that most influenced the medium, and why.

15. Match.com

Emerging generations may someday look back at the late 20th and early 21st centuries as a kind of dividing line: before and after the Internet, and before and after we scrutinized potential dates with a service like Match.com. The latter’s been around since 1995, an online dating service whose inception in 1993 was originally to distribute online classified ads for newspapers. But that quickly shifted to helping people make screened and interests-matched interpersonal connections, culminating in a service that today operates in 25 countries and boasts tens of millions of members.

Online forums have been around since the Internet’s inception, so in that sense, Reddit’s just the modern face of what began as dial-up discussion boards. But Reddit, which arrived in 2005, also folds in social news curation, making it a combination story-and-reaction hub. That notion of melding interesting, obscure or hot button topics with fan communities has proven so popular that it’s lured hundreds of millions of users who generate tens of billions of page views annually, giving rise to a site slogan that plausibly reads “The front page of the internet.”

13. Pandora

Early Internet sites like MP3.com kicked off a music-sharing wave that’s culminated in digital platforms like iTunes and Spotify, but Pandora exemplifies the notion of online streamed tunes with recommendations delivered to taste. Launched in 2000, Pandora let users play songs they knew or from genre categories in a browser, then followed with suggested songs based on shared traits. Users could give each selection a thumbs up or down, “training” the service to cater to their preferences. You can see elements of that process in everything from Amazon’s “New For You” product recommendations, to Apple’s “For You” iTunes content curation tab.

12. WikiLeaks

A site once contrasted with The Pentagon Papers for its subversive “document dumps” of classified information has in the wake of the 2016 election become a battleground for debate about the role of mass scale whistleblowing and propaganda. Established in 2006 by Australian activist Julian Assange as a means to anonymously divulge sensitive information about countries and institutions, Wikileaks was best known for its revelations about U.S. military operations, diplomatic activities, detention camps and abetting of NSA leaker Edward Snowden — until 2016, when the site involved itself in the U.S. presidential election by releasing troves of Democratic party emails allegedly supplied by Russian operatives.

11. The Pirate Bay

Open platforms invite controversy by their nature, giving voice to groups who want to challenge cultural or legal principles. Sites like Napster kickstarted illicit music-sharing in the early 2000s, but The Pirate Bay, launched by a trio of Swedes in 2003, exemplifies the anti-copyright argument that “information wants to be free.” The site indexes content hosted by others, providing links that its users can use to download movies, music, books and more — often in flagrant violation of information-sharing laws. Though hounded across the globe by lawsuits, domain seizures and criminal investigations, the site somehow persists and remains a flashpoint for debate over the virtues and perils of peer-to-peer file sharing.

10. Info.cern.ch

Created by “father of the web” Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 at the CERN research center in Switzerland, info.cern.ch isn’t much to look at today. But the archetype for anything is influential by default, and that’s certainly true of this, the spark for every website that followed. Still viewable today, the site spotlights features in the DNA of every modern website, including hyperlinks, a site map, an About-style page and contact information. We’ve made order of magnitude changes to the audiovisual aspects of web design since, but Berners-Lee’s basic thoughts on what a website should be still resonate nearly 30 years later.

Amazon may run the world’s biggest online store today, but credit eBay for popularizing the idea of an open marketplace for buyers and sellers. eBay, which began life in 1995 as AuctionWeb, forever altered the way the world passed along and monetized used goods. And it paved the way for modern e-tailers like Etsy, which lets anyone sell their crafts or run a small business online. Amazon may be where we turn for paper towels, groceries and last minute holiday gifts, but it’s still eBay people scan to find vintage or scarce items, from rare pairs of sneakers to sold out iPhones.

8. Drudge Report

Matt Drudge’s eponymous “Report” is most famous for breaking the Monica Lewinsky story, but the site rarely posts news of its own. Instead, it serves as a conservative-leaning news aggregator, pointing to articles from across the web and putting an ideologically-spun (and irresistibly clicky) headline on them. Drudge’s barebones web design has changed little over the years, serving as a sort of living memorial to the days of dial-up Internet. But the site remains massively influential (and massively read) in Washington, D.C., influencing the agenda of Beltway movers and shakers.

Years before “Google” became a verb, there was Yahoo. An early effort to bring order to the chaos of the Internet, Yahoo served as a sort of Yellow Pages for the web, with human editors selecting links to news stories and other sites. Google’s relevance-based search algorithms eventually resonated more strongly with users, plunging Yahoo toward irrelevance as its raison d’être dwindled. But Yahoo’s core idea — that something should help Internet users cut through all the noise to find a bit of signal — remains an essential tenet of online information curation.

6. Craigslist

Long before finding a date by swiping your smartphone, browsing apartments on Trulia, or searching for part-time work through Indeed, there was Craigslist. The site remains a popular destination for real estate and job listings in 2017, with more than 60 million monthly U.S. users . Craigslist started as an emailed list of San Francisco-based events in 1995, which founder Craig Newmark expanded into a classified ads site and online forum. Its influences extend beyond the web, too: many attribute a significant part of the newspaper industry’s decline to the shift from print ads to online ones.

In retrospect, watching videos on the Internet seems obvious — monitors are basically tiny flatscreen TVs, after all. But it took YouTube to show the world that anyone could be a video star. Just as early blogging platforms made everyone a critic, YouTube (followed by Instagram and Snapchat) turned anyone with a smartphone into a video publisher. The impact has been immeasurable, both for better and worse: YouTube makes it easy to entertain ourselves, learn new skills or keep in touch with far-flung friends. But it can also be a haven for invective and hate speech, a problem the Alphabet-owned site continues to grapple with.

4. Facebook

A website founded by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the early 2000s as a way to profile Harvard classmates has become the world’s largest social network. More than two billion users frequent the platform monthly, eclipsing alternate platforms like Tencent’s WeChat (968 million), Instagram (700 million) and Twitter (328 million). But the site has also evolved from a way to stay in touch with friends and relatives, to a medium through which both news and propaganda flow freely , mingling in ways that often make it difficult to tell one from the other. Facebook has pledged to do battle with so-called “fake news,” and says it’s refining the site’s processes to mitigate the spread of misinformation as well as clickbait .

3. Wikipedia

While your high school teachers and college professors may have taught you to doubt Wikipedia’s reliability, its rise to prominence since launching in 2001 is undeniable. With five million English entries, Wikipedia has become the de facto Internet encyclopedia. That said, Wikipedia’s openness — arguably what’s fueled its omnipresence — is also its biggest handicap. Since Wikipedia articles can be edited by anyone with Internet access, the platform is susceptible to bias or outright inaccuracy. But that hasn’t hindered its popularity: according to Amazon’s analytics site Alexa, it’s the fifth most trafficked website globally.

Amazon in 2017 is a retail and technology behemoth, selling everything from salad dressing to server space. But it began as a humble online bookseller, paving the way for all the e-commerce sites that followed. The company may not have pioneered concepts like browsing a digital “store” or filling up an online “shopping cart,” but the site helped e-tail break into the mainstream, and at a time when many consumers weren’t comfortable plugging credit card numbers into browsers. Amazon accounts for just 5% of U.S. retail sales today, but its market share is expected to surge as traditional players’ revenue dwindles.

Since its arrival in 1998, Google has become so ingrained in our vernacular that Merriam Webster added it to the dictionary as a transitive verb. The multinational tech firm has become synonymous with the notion of researching anything — you don’t “look something up online,” you “Google” it. And it remains the web’s most pervasive search tool, accounting for 97% of the mobile search engine market and 79% of desktop search engine use, according to recent data from Net Market Share .

More Must-Reads From TIME

• Jane Fonda Champions Climate Action for Every Generation
• Biden’s Campaign Is In Trouble. Will the Turnaround Plan Work?
• Why We're Spending So Much Money Now
• The Financial Influencers Women Actually Want to Listen To
• Breaker Sunny Choi Is Heading to Paris
• Why TV Can’t Stop Making Silly Shows About Lady Journalists
• The Case for Wearing Shoes in the House
• Want Weekly Recs on What to Watch, Read, and More? Sign Up for Worth Your Time

Write to Matt Peckham at [email protected]

You May Also Like

• Top Websites
• Science and Education

Top Websites Ranking

Most Visited History Websites

Last updated : March 1, 2024

* Some websites ranked in the list above may contain adult content, please use caution when visiting unknown sites.

Most Visited History Websites Ranking Analysis for February 2024

vymanga.net is ranked number 1 as the most popular website in the History category in February 2024. The average amount of time that users spend on the website is 00:08:53 minutes, and they see, on average, 6.18 pages per visit. Pages per visit is a popular engagement metric that is calculated by dividing the total number of website views by the total number of visitors. The bounce rate for vymanga.net is 38.62%, meaning that 38.62% of visitors leave the website after viewing just one page.

archives.gov and worldhistory.org are 2nd and 3rd on the list. In terms of user engagement, archives.gov has an average visit duration of 00:02:37 minutes, an average pages per visit of 3.60, and a bounce rate of 62.81%. Similarly, worldhistory.org’s average visit duration is 00:08:39 minutes, its average pages per visit is 1.39, and its bounce rate is 49.2%.

cervantesvirtual.com is a top History website that ranks in 4th place. On average, visitors remain on-site for 00:02:18 minutes and 70.77% of those visits bounce after viewing just one page. In addition, the average website pages viewed per visit is 2.04.

Number five on our list is historyquiz.com, a top History website. Visitors see 2.27 pages per visit and spend 00:04:30 minutes on the website. The bounce rate for historyquiz.com is 42.83%.

Come again next month for the updated website ranking & traffic analysis of the most visited History websites!

FAQs About The Top History Websites

Question: Which is the most visited History website? Answer: vymanga.net is the most visited History website in February 2024.

Question: Which is the 2nd most visited History website? Answer: archives.gov is the 2nd most visited History website in February 2024.

Question: What are the top 5 most popular History websites in the world? Answer: The top 5 most popular History websites in the world in February 2024 are: 1. vymanga.net 2. archives.gov 3. worldhistory.org 4. cervantesvirtual.com 5. historyquiz.com.

Best History WebSites

Best of History Web Sites

Best of History Web Sites, created by EdTechTeacher, is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

Best of History Web Sites has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, — and many others.

Where to Start?

• See our Lesson Plans page for a curated list of sites offering quality resources ready for classroom use. Although there are many sites with good lesson plans, students are sure to enjoy the engaging ideas and primary sources offered by the Library of Congress and the U.K. National Archives, whose online offerings are generous.
• Check out Games and Animations for links to historical simulations, educational video games, high-quality animations, online quizzes, and more! Learn about medieval water supply with the game Waterworks, or cook your way through the ancient world with Tasting History!
• Our Election 2020 page collects links to the polls, think tanks, and interactives you’ll need to help students make sense of the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election. Try PBS’s Election Decoder, a useful interactive that brings students through the electoral maps of every election in U.S. history, or peruse the New York Times’ list of 11 Ways to Engage Students from Now Until November.
• We’re proud to offer plenty of Medieval History links, including videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more. Explore quarantine and social distancing in Tudor England during the plague, or listen to the story of a Byzantine princess who chronicled the history of her empire.

Explore the American Revolution by taking a virtual reality tour of the Yorktown battlefield or learning how colonial women contributed to the war effort. Hamilton fans will enjoy the Alexander Hamilton Exhibition, which tells his life story through items and documents left behind by the West Indies immigrant himself.

69 History Websites for Research: Best Sites for Students

A history project is one of the most fascinating and, at the same time, challenging assignments. The research process was especially complicated when there was no Internet. To investigate primary and secondary sources on history, students were spending long hours in the libraries.

Our specialists will write a custom essay specially for you!

Nowadays, there are plenty of online resources available. Yet, not all of the history websites provide relevant information. So, be very careful and don’t trust every blog or webpage you read.

To help you avoid this problem while selecting history websites for your research paper, our team made this list. There you’ll see the most reliable online resources according to your task. In order to increase the efficiency, you can also try a website summarizer that will allow you to boil down any piece of content to highlight only the most important parts within seconds.

Find the best history websites below.

🏺 Ancient History

🏰 medieval history, 📺 modern history, 🇺🇸 american history, 🌍 african history, 🇮🇳 indian history, 🇷🇺 russian history, 🇪🇺 european history, 🇨🇦 canadian history, 🇦🇺 australian history, 🇬🇧 british history, ⚔️ world war 1, ⚔️ world war 2, 🎨 art history, 👩 women in history, ⛓️ history of slavery, 💣 military history, ⛪ history of religion, 🔬 history of science, 🌎 world history websites.

Do you need to write a research paper on a specific historical era? Look through the following section then. Here, world history websites are divided according to the historical periods starting from ancient times and ending with modernity.

Ancient Times is a fascinating historical era since it hides a lot of secrets. Investigate them in your paper! To make your research more manageable, use our ancient history websites.

Just in 1 hour! We will write you a plagiarism-free paper in hardly more than 1 hour

• BBC – Ancient History The BBC site contains a selection of resources and materials useful for any history student. They include Galleries, exhibitions, an ancient history timeline, history trails, information about historical figures, and much more.
• Discovering Ancient Egypt This site focuses more on a specific topic. And that topic is Ancient Egypt. With daily updates, this website is filled with information about hieroglyphs, Egyptian architecture, kings and queens of Ancient Egypt, numbers and Egyptian math, ancient history facts, and more.
• Perseus Project This website will serve as a fantastic place for finding primary and secondary sources on various historical topics. Discover information on Ancient Greek history, archaeology and art, the Greco-Roman world, and Ancient Olympics, just to name a few.
• Online Gallery – Virtual Books (aka Turning the Pages) This fascinating site stands out among the other ancient history websites. It allows you to turn the pages of numerous manuscripts, books, and other historical works.
• Kaminski Handwriting Collection The name of this site speaks for itself. This is a collection of handwriting. It contains manuscripts, documents, and other works. It’s a terrific site for finding primary and secondary sources of any kind.

Are you searching for historical websites to write a paper on medieval times? We can help you with that! Take a look at our list of history sites and find the most convenient one.

• Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet This site is dedicated to studies of the Middle Ages with a focus on the Eastern Roman Empire. It has a wide selection of academic and teaching resources. Both students and lecturers will find them useful.
• The Labyrinth This site grants access to various resources in medieval studies. It covers a broad range of topics, including architecture, art, armor , nations, a Middle Ages timeline, and much more. You’re very likely to find answers to any questions regarding medieval history here.
• Medievalists.Net This is a blog oriented on medieval history. It includes general information, news, videos, and articles—all about medieval times, including Middle Ages facts.
• Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts This site contains about 11,000 manuscripts from medieval times. All of them are searchable, and the site is available in multiple languages.

The Internet is full of educational websites about modern history. But how to make sure the information presented on them is reliable? The answer is simple. Use our online resources! They are checked and verified by a team of professionals.

• Academy of Achievement This site tells the stories of people who gained outstanding achievements throughout the modern history timeline. It covers various fields, including sports, art, science, and more. It also includes video and audio clips. It will help you find out more about iconic personalities through the stories of their success.
• Historical Atlas of the 20th Century It gives detailed information about the lives of people during the entire 20th century. Apart from that, the site also contains useful links, FAQs, and an assortment of essays. It will surely be a valuable source of data for any modern history research.
• The 20th Century — a World History This is a very detailed site that tells about all of world history’s key events in the 20th century. It has easy to navigate indexation that makes this site user-friendly. It also provides a list of recommended readings.
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook The title is pretty self-explanatory. It is a collection of public domain historical texts that anyone can use for educational purposes. Materials presented here cover various aspects of the world’s modern history, making this site worth checking out.

🗺️ History of Countries

Do you have in mind a specific country or a continent you want to write your paper about? Take a look at the following section! History websites listed below highlight the key events that occurred in separate countries or areas.

America is quite a young country. Yet, its history impresses with a wide variety of significant events. Are you questioning where to find relevant information for your US research paper? Use our American history websites!

• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History This useful website will provide you with in-depth information about the events in every era of American history. It also gives access to primary sources and has quite a collection of videos and audios.
• The National Museum of American History This site will help anyone interested in studying American history. Collections and exhibitions present on this site cover every aspect of people’s lives throughout its history. So, you should take a look.
• United States History Here’s what differentiates this site from other American history websites. Apart from having all the historical facts described and sorted in chronological order, this site also offers information tables, maps, quizzes, and a glossary. Not only can you learn something new about American history, but you also have a chance to check your knowledge right away.
• Teaching American History This website will be equally useful for both teachers and students. It contains numerous exhibits, historical documents, and other resources. This site will make research on any topic regarding American history easier.

Are you going to write an essay about Africa? We have good news for you! Our team selected the best history websites that will help you to complete your task. Take a look at them right now!

Receive a plagiarism-free paper tailored to your instructions. Cut 20% off your first order!

• South African History Online This site will provide you with detailed and in-depth information on African history. Whatever it is that interests you about Africa – this website is one of the first places you should visit.
• Southern African Historical Society It isn’t only an informative online historical journal about Africa. This site also acts as a network to unite historians and allow them to communicate.
• Wonders of the African World Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. runs the site. He shares his vision of Africa through his travel diary, depicting architectural wonders and interpreting historical events. You should visit this site if you’re in search of a fresh and unbiased look at African history.
• African Voices This website is more like a never-ending exhibition. Apart from materials that you’d expect to get from a history website, African Voices also highlights the issues of working, wealth, living conditions, and other everyday aspects of life in Africa.

Are you searching for historical websites that would introduce you to Indian civilization? We have what to offer you! Check out the following list of online resources.

• Harappa This site will tell you about the Indus culture and the Indus Valley. It’s filled with images, photos, slideshows, and articles to describe the culture and heritage in great detail. It also includes videos, books, and articles.
• History of India This website has all it takes to become a go-to place if you research the ancient history of India. All the materials on this site are divided into sections for better navigation. They include religion, chronological events, education, references, geography, and other historical topics.
• India History Apart from telling about events of Indian history, this site also provides evidence of those events happening. It gives an incredibly informative spreadsheet that anyone can use as a reference during research.

The history of Russia has a lot to offer! This country impresses with its fascinating past and promising future. Investigate our history websites to learn more about Russia.

• The Face of Russia The face of Russia is a series of historical documentaries by PBS. The site contains a timeline of Russian history, maps, biographies, indexes, program summaries, and references.
• Soviet History Archive This is a part of the Marxist Internet Archive. It tells about the development of Russia during the 20th century. It describes the main historical events along with detailed info about the culture and society of the USSR.
• Seventeen Moments in Soviet History This website is a multimedia archive for all those interested in Russian history during the Soviet era. It provides materials on history, economics, politics, culture, and society.

Do you need to write a paper on European history, but the Internet is full of unreliable information? We know the solution to this problem! Use your checked websites, and don’t worry about the credibility of these online resources.

• European History Online This academic website contains articles on European history. It covers the period from the 15th century up to the 21st century. All the documents are separated into thematic threads, and the site includes a European history timeline.
• My House of European History This site contains articles and stories about European history written by regular users. It provides different points of view on various events in the history of Europe. The stories are complete with pictures, recordings, videos, and documents. They also have geographical locations. It’s easy to collect and share those stories, so this site is a real goldmine for any researcher.
• EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History This site is a great place to find historical materials and sources about various events and periods in any European country. The documents you can find here are transcribed or translated. There are also video and audio files, maps, and photos to complete your research.

A paper on Canadian history is a very challenging task unless you have appropriate sources with information. And guess what? You have them! Check our list of history websites about Canada!

• Canada’s History This history website includes articles, books, magazines, podcasts, videos, and much more about Canada. It also grants access to online forums, webinars, archives, and galleries.
• Historica Canada This site tells everything about the history and citizenship of Canada. Not only does it reveal about the events of the past, but this site’s staff also engages with people so they can tell stories and share their unique experiences.
• Canada History It’s another history website that provides intriguing and well-classified information about Canadian history. It includes articles on historical events, politics, locations, and culture. The site also contains timelines, maps, videos, and a variety of historical documents.
• The Canadian Encyclopedia It is a detailed and well-organized encyclopedia that will tell you about all aspects of Canadian history. It also gives access to interactive resources such as various collections, exhibitions, and timelines.

A history project is a perfect opportunity to learn more about Australia! Use our history websites for research to make sure the information is reliable.

Get an originally-written paper according to your instructions!

• Australian History Research The site will tell you about all the happenings that took place in Australian history. It also provides different types of publications and additional resources to help with researching a specific topic.
• Royal Australian Historical Society This is a site about Australia’s oldest historical organization. It was founded back in 1901 in Sydney. And to this day, its aim stays the same – to promote Australian history studies.
• Australian History Mysteries It’s an Australian history website designed for primary and secondary schools. It provides you with historical information, case studies, videos, interactive activities, and print content.

Are you going to write a paper on the history of Great Britain? You will go on a fascinating historical journey. To make it more pleasurable, use our history websites (UK oriented)! Here you will find only credible information.

• The National Archives This website is designed to help students with researching historical topics. It doesn’t only share historical and educational materials about British history. It also has research guides and other recommendations to help make your work more efficient.
• The British Empire This British history website contains timelines, photos, battle descriptions, maps, and much more regarding British history in general and the British Empire in particular. It shares a personal view of the events, which makes this site different from other academic resources.
• British History Online This site serves as a source of primary and secondary materials for British and Irish history. Its primary focus is on the period from 1300 to 1800.

📜 History Websites by Topic

Have you already decided on the exact topic you are going to explore in your research paper? Do you want to write about a specific event or an outstanding historical figure? Then, this section is for you!

Below, you will find the list of useful history websites for students. Use them and don’t worry about the reliability of the primary sources and secondary ones.

WWI has always been a topic of great interest. But how to make sure that a source provides reliable facts about this remarkable event? The answer is simple – to use credible sources. Check our list of the best history websites for the WWI essay.

• International Encyclopedia of the First World War This site contains in-depth information and a variety of materials about World War I. It includes videos, imagery, and audio. It also has downloadable content and a list of links to other sites dedicated to this event.
• A Multimedia History of World War One This website covers every aspect of World War One history. From chronological events to personalities and weaponry used. It also contains source documents, maps, propaganda posters, and vintage photos and videos.
• The Great War It’s another site that shares historical materials about essential World War I dates. However, what makes it different is that it shows what’s now situated at the locations where battlefields used to be.
• www.worldwar1.com The history website is for students and researchers that delivers various award-winning materials about World War I, including books and magazines. Apart from that, it has links to other sites and articles that cover World War I.

WWII is another significant event in the history of the world. Are you going to write a paper on this topic? Use the following history websites for research.

• World War 2 This site provides detailed information on a wide selection of topics regarding the Second World War. Categories include a timeline , facts, figures, and statistics, just to name a few. There’s much more to this site, so you should visit it.
• ww2history.com Apart from describing critical moments of the World War Two timeline, this site also provides visual materials. It lets you examine testimonies and interviews with experts in this historical field. It also has a selection of links to other resources dedicated to this topic.
• World War II Today This website provides in-depth information about all the events of World War II, in chronological order. Content is divided into categories by year. It also contains new research and findings, as well as a selection of external links and diaries.

History is not only about international or civil wars, congresses, and revolutions. It’s also about the development of art. Are you interested in this topic? Check out our art history websites and find appropriate information!

• The Art History Archive This site serves as a valuable source of information about specific artists, art groups, and artistic movements. It mentions even the smallest art movements along the art history timeline to ensure that it will satisfy any visitor’s needs.
• Art History Resources This site is a collection of links to various art topics. But the amount and level of organization of those links make it worthwhile to visit the site. It’s a valuable source for any art history study.
• Trivium Art History This colorful resource can be equally useful for both students and educators. It contains historical facts about art movements and provides high-resolution images and other materials, including writings and biographies of artists from various art historical periods.
• Web Gallery of Art This site acts as a searchable database for anyone interested in art history. Apart from historical materials, this site includes guided tours, an extensive database, and a comprehensive list of sources.

Are you interested in the role of women in the development of society? Look through our history websites to learn more insightful facts about the correlation between women and history.

• Women in World History This site contains a wide variety of educational materials and resources about women’s history globally. It includes organized lessons, thematic units, biographies, background essays, reviews, and Q&As.
• Women’s History Network This is the site of a national association and charity. It promotes women’s history and encourages those interested in it. It shares publications, holds conferences, and has blog articles posted regularly.
• National Women’s History Project This history website dedicated to women in history has a wide selection of historical materials and other resources (such as quizzes, resource links, and commemorations).

Slavery is one of the darkest pages in world history. Do you need to write a research paper on this topic? Our history websites will help you to find relevant information for your work.

• Slavery in South Africa This site focuses on the enslaved society that existed in Africa. It provides extensive historical information, as well as additional resources. Those include primary documents, a bibliography, personal stories, and a selection of links.
• Harvard and Slavery This website contains the results of students’ research on the topic of Harvard University’s involvement in slavery. It covers the period throughout Harvard’s existence, starting with its founding in 1636.
• The Abolition Project – Slavery This is a section of The Abolition Project website telling about slavery. It covers several historical aspects of this topic and contains imagery, maps, a timeline, and articles.
• Slavery in the North This site provides a detailed look at the issue of slavery in North America. As well as covering the general data, it also tells about the issue in particular regions, making this site a valuable source for everyone researching this topic.

Do you want to create an academic essay on military history but don’t know where to find relevant information? The following list of historical websites will help you to deal with this problem.

• War History Online This site tells about the history and evolution of warfare in all of its aspects. It contains videos, pictures, and articles on a wide variety of topics.
• Military History Online As the name of this site suggests, it tells about military history. This website covers the period from ancient times to modern days, making it an excellent resource for all those interested in this topic.
• Military History Encyclopedia This site covers all the aspects of military history. It contains over 5,500 articles, more than 1,000 book reviews, and pictures, maps, and documents. It also includes coverage of the infamous world conflicts.
• Military History Monthly Apart from covering events in military history, this site also provides new research and articles on this topic. It reveals further details about specific events and shares findings that were unknown before.

Religion is an essential part of life for the majority of the world’s population. Hence, the history of religion is quite a common topic for research papers. Use our list of online resources to explore this topic on a deeper level.

• Religion Facts This site contains facts and historical information on all the major world religions. It also includes charts, a glossary, and descriptions of religious symbols.
• Religion in American History This site is what its name portrays. It covers all the aspects of religion in American history from the perspective of writers and scholars who contribute to the website.
• BBC – History This section of the BBC website informs about world religions. Their appearance and development throughout the history of humankind are explored in particular.

Are you planning to write a research paper on the history of science? We have good news for you! Our team selected the best history websites to help you explore this issue!

• History of Science Society The site is dedicated to understanding science, its interaction with society, and studying its history. The Society holds meetings and events and shares articles, publications, and other educational materials.
• Department of the History of Science (Harvard University) The site aims to examine the history and development of science, its impact on human lives, and discuss the latest developments. It provides a list of resources that contains a large number of historical and educational materials.
• Museum of the History of Science This site includes many online exhibits that depict the history and development of various sciences. It also offers lectures and tours, all of which are available online and in podcast form.
• The British Society for the History of Science The site is devoted to studying the history of science, technology, and medicine. It provides publications and other educational materials, holds conferences, and promotes the understanding of science in general.

We do hope that our list of history websites will help you out.

Even if some of the websites listed here don’t deliver what you’d expect, they have their list of sources, too. So, it’s still worth looking through this list and visiting the sites. And share the page with peers when they need them.

• Share to Facebook
• Share to Twitter
• Share to LinkedIn
• Share to email

Getting your message across may seem a bit harder online than in real life. Though, a whole lot of methods, including audio tracks, videos, animations, and other visuals, are available for you at any second. And let’s not forget about good ol’ text. So, what do you do to win...

Every student is constantly looking for tried and true methods, tools, and techniques to make their study process more effective. And note taking on lectures and textbooks is a skill that no student can live without. Why?

The selection of websites in this article will help students cope with their everyday challenges easily and efficiently. Nowadays, the approach to teaching, learning and writing custom essay has undergone some changes. These are a few main qualities that modern education fosters so far: Creative and critical thinking skills,Interaction and...

How to make the most of your studying? What is the right balance between studying and having fun? Is it a good idea to work while being in college? We discussed those important questions with Ingrid Mosquera Gende, professor, blogger, and just a great person, and received valuable pieces of...

Are you dreading your upcoming test because you feel unprepared? Or are you simply looking to refresh and improve your test-taking skills? In this article by Custom-Writing.org experts, you’ll find a collection of excellent test-taking tips and strategies. Even if you only have one day to prepare for your test,...

Neuroscientists and psychologists worldwide have put considerable effort into investigating the characteristics and functions of the left and right sides (the technical name is hemispheres) of the brain. Though the two sides of a human’s brain look alike, they process information very differently. Over the years, studies have consistently shown...

Bloom’s taxonomy is a set of hierarchical models that classify educational learning objectives. It divides them into levels that differ in their specificity and complexity. Students use it for better learning and understanding of a subject, while tutors incorporate it into teaching. As a result:This article will give you a...

Bloom’s taxonomy is a highly efficient educational system that helps to set and reach learning objectives. But how do you make it even more effective? Use apps! Modern technology gives us plenty of opportunities, so why not take advantage of it? Here, at Custom-Writing.org, we’ve selected 46 apps that can...

English grammar is similar to math. It has strict rules defined by the correlations of different parts of the sentence. Unlike many other languages, there is usually one correct variant of saying a sentence. But these rules are complicated and intricate only until you find a simple explanation. Now there...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is the problem of millions of children and their parents worldwide. Fewer children keep symptoms when they become adults. But smaller numbers do not mean the absence of the problem. These people are inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive, or both. The subtypes of the disease are respectively called ADD,...

Essay Writing Contest by Custom-Writing.org has come to an end. During that exciting period, numerous students from all over the world voiced their opinions on topics concerning students’ writing skills, decreasing amount of homework, requirements of academic writing, and custom essay services. It was our first contest here at Custom-Writing.org,...

A branch of linguistics that studies all human sounds is called phonetics. It analyses the production (articulation), transmission (sound), and perception (hearing) of sounds. The phonetic system of a language represents the way people use sounds in their speech. A language’s phonology classifies these sounds into vowels and consonants, long...

• The Beginning
• / Earth Formation
• / Seeds Of Life
• / Age Of Fish
• / Age Of Reptiles
• / Age Of Mammals
• / Stone Age
• / Bronze Age
• / Middle Ages
• / Renaissance
• / Industrial Age
• / Information Age

Histography [BETA]

Interactive timeline of history, editorial stories.

Discover Handpicked Stories from The Entire History

Every Historical Event

THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF HISTORY

Promoting scholarship of historical and educational significance.

• Jul 20, 2021

What is Your Digital History Top Ten?

Updated: Mar 18, 2022

By David Brandon Dennis, NEJH Digital Editor

July 20, 2021

What is your list of the top ten digital history websites? We're more than three decades into the movement for digital history and digital humanities on the web. Historians, university libraries, scholarly organizations, media companies, and history fans have contributed a vast array of resources. There are many amazing sites out there (along with plenty of mediocre and just plain bad ones). They span a variety of genres from primary source archives to digital exhibits, games, and videos. The image featured here is the home page of one of my all-time favorites (as a historian of modern Germany): German History in Documents and Images, created and maintained by scholars working with the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. In my view, it has one of the best and most user-friendly layouts among the primary source archives that populate the web. Each document or images is nicely curated with context provided by leading scholars and translated into English.

To commemorate NEJH ’s transition into the digital history world, I published an editorial round-up with brief reviews of my top ten digital history websites in the Spring 2021 issue of the Journal . It was our featured article for Spring 2021, and can now be purchased here .

My list is, of course, subjective and therefore is not meant to be definitive. Instead, I invite readers to submit their own top ten lists, which we will consider for publication as a guest contribution on this blog. If you would like to submit your list, please email it with a brief one-paragraph description and review for each site, as well as your resume to [email protected] (attn: David Dennis). Let's continue to build the digital community of practice among history researchers and educators that the Journal ’s digitization makes possible.

Recent Posts

The Puerto Ricans of Western Massachusetts: An Interview with Joseph Carvalho III

Using Digital History at Boston College High School to Map the "New Bostonians"

Reflections on Teaching African History in America: An Interview with Linda Morse

The most comprehensive and authoritative history site on the Internet.

This Victorian-Era Performer Learned that the Stage Life in the American West Wasn’t All Applause and Bouquets

Sue Robinson rose from an itinerant life as a touring child performer to become an acclaimed dramatic actress.

As the Boxer Rebellion Stole Headlines from His Wild West, Buffalo Bill Put the Clash into His Show

Could These American Paratroopers Stop the Germans from Reaching Utah Beach on D-Day?

Oscar Wilde Bothered and Bewildered Westerners While Touring to Promote Gilbert and Sullivan

This Frenchman Tried to Best the Wright Brothers on Their Home Turf

Our podcast, this week in history, what if….

What If Germany Had Introduced the Me-262 Earlier in the War?

The July 2010 Aviation History Reader’s Poll asks readers to discuss the impact of an earlier introduction of the Messerschmitt Me-262 on the air war in Europe.

What If Britain Had Made Peace With Hitler?

What If the Marines Had Skipped Iwo Jima?

What If Hitler Had Defeated the Soviet Union?

What If the U.S. Had Invaded a Japanese Home Island?

Weapons & gear.

Buffalo Bill’s Tours of Italy and the ‘Spaghetti Western’ Inspired Replica Old West Firearms

Rifles and revolvers made by Uberti, Pietta, Pedersoli and other Italian firms remain popular.

How to Build Royce Williams’ MiG-Killing Panther

The Workhorse of the Berlin Airlift, the Douglas C-47 Saw Service Through Vietnam

The FADAC Was Used to Calculate Artillery Firing Data. Was it One of the First Personal Computers?

Bullard Rifles Were Popular, But Were Too Expensive and Took Too Long to Make

Historynet archives: best u.s. general.

The Man Who Saved Korea

Matthew B. Ridgway, who brought a beaten Eighth Army back from disaster in 1951, was a thinking—and fighting—man’s soldier.

Omar Bradley, the General’s General

Admiral Raymond A. Spruance: Modest Victor of Midway

Patton and the Battle of the Bulge: ‘As soon as you’re through with me, I can attack the day after tomorrow morning’

George Washington Needed to Keep His Spies Hidden. So He Financed a Secret Lab For Invisible Ink.

EDITORS’ PICKS

In 1807 a French Officer Field-Tested an Artillery Tactic That Remained Decisive for More Than a Century

The breakthrough came during the Battle of Friedland, the victory that decided the War of the Fourth Coalition in Napoleon’s favor.

Embattled Banner: The True History of the Confederate Flag

What If Hitler Had Won World War II?

Sid Cotton’s Air Force was an early ‘eye in the sky’ for Britain’s Intelligence Service

Haunted by the Dead: Grave Digging in WWII was a Job No Soldier Wanted

Historynet magazines.

Our 9 best-selling history titles feature in-depth storytelling and iconic imagery to engage and inform on the people, the wars, and the events that shaped America and the world.

The Best of History Websites

Online Information Review

ISSN : 1468-4527

Article publication date: 11 April 2008

• Electronic information resources

Neville, K. (2008), "The Best of History Websites", Online Information Review , Vol. 32 No. 2, pp. 290-291. https://doi.org/10.1108/14684520810879935

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2008, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

The Best of History Websites is a large‐format paperback packed with carefully selected, annotated web sites covering a range of historical eras from prehistoric to colonial America and post‐war Europe, extending over a range of topics from imperialism to terrorism. The Best of History Websites was created in 2000 as a result of a three‐week project to collect information web sites relevant to American high school history classes. The result was the creation of the award‐winning history portal ( www.besthistorysites.net ), and this book provides a hardcopy reference volume to accompany the popular website.

The author, Tom Daccord, is President of the Center for Teaching History with Technology, and an experienced webmaster. He has a long career teaching history in schools, with a strong emphasis on utilising new technologies in the classroom. The book has an American bias, although some topics have included international viewpoints. A simple three‐page preface gives an excellent explanation of the purpose, background and layout of the book to enable the user to benefit from the web sites. The volume concludes with a very detailed index, which is an essential requirement in such a volume.

Chapter 1 has a number of helpful tips for active and proactive searching using the often‐overlooked functions of Google such as alerts, news, newsletters, RSS feeds and listservs. Chapter 2, by Tom Daccord and Justin Reich, describes useful ways to integrate history sites into the classroom and includes projects that have been tried and tested and are available from the Center for Teaching History with Technology at http://thwt.org/tomslessons.html

The 12 chapters are divided into eras and subtopics; for example, the prehistory category is further subdivided into topics such as Greece, China, Africa and Egypt to allow readers to locate the relevant information rapidly. For each website there is a brief description of the site, and an indication of the type of resources, including quizzes, games, lessons, maps, atlases, statistics or general reference resources. There is an accompanying grade level (using American terms of Lower School, Middle School and High school, which are explained in the preface). Each site is rated with stars from 5 (excellent) to 3 (good), and the volume include over 800 current history and history‐related web sites from a variety of sources including universities, schools and government sites. The addition of topics such as art history and oral history, along with maps and geography web sites, completes the volume.

This book is a “working title” to be dog‐eared and referred to frequently. This book is recommended to history teachers, academics and librarians in the social sciences as a useful addition to their reference resources.

Related articles

We’re listening — tell us what you think, something didn’t work….

Report bugs here

All feedback is valuable

Please share your general feedback

Join us on our journey

Platform update page.

Visit emeraldpublishing.com/platformupdate to discover the latest news and updates

Questions & More Information

Answers to the most commonly asked questions here

University of Alabama Athletics

FINAL FOUR BOUND! Alabama Reaches its First-Ever Final Four with 89-82 Victory over Clemson

3/31/2024 1:40:00 AM | Men's Basketball

The Crimson Tide is heading to Phoenix and will face UConn in the NCAA national semifinals Saturday

LOS ANGELES – The Alabama men's basketball team made history Saturday night in Crypto.com Arena, as the No. 4 seed Crimson Tide reached the program's first-ever Final Four, defeating No. 6 seed Clemson, 89-82, in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Elite Eight.

Mark Sears , who was named the West Region Most Valuable Player, led five UA players in double figures, finishing with a game high 23 points on 7-14 shooting from beyond the arc. Nick Pringle collected a double-double with 16 points and 11 boards while Jarin Stevenson added a career-best 19 points on five made threes. Rylan Griffen (13) and Aaron Estrada (10) also scored in double digits to lead the Tide (25-11). In addition to Sears, Alabama's Grant Nelson was named to the West Region All-Tournament Team.

Clemson (24-12) was led by Joseph Girard III who scored 19 points on 5-10 shooting from deep, while Ian Schieffelin added 18 points and 11 rebounds in the loss.

THE TIDE IS ROLLING TO THE FINAL FOUR! #RollTide | #BlueCollarBasketball pic.twitter.com/fSKwuWmUva — Alabama Men's Basketball (@AlabamaMBB) March 31, 2024

Head Coach Nate Oats Postgame Comments

"I couldn't be more proud of a group of guys. We challenged them at the beginning of this tournament that we're going to have to pick up our defense, and our defense got significantly better. And they've just been all about winning. I mean, nobody really cares who's scoring the points, and get a little frustrated and they just keep playing together. I mean, I've got multiple guys telling me to keep other guys in the game. And there's been no selfishness in this four-game run.

"Clemson got up 13 on us. And after that we went on a big run to close the half to have a three-point lead. And they made some runs on us in the second half. And it seemed like we just hit timely three after timely three, whether it was Jarin or Rylan or Mark. Mark hit one, felt like it was from half court. And it was big three after big three.

"I am truly proud of these guys. We're going to enjoy it for a night, go enjoy Easter Sunday back in Tuscaloosa. And then figure out the plans when we're going to Phoenix."

• With the Elite Eight victory, Alabama advances to the program's first-ever Final Four
• The win was Alabama's eighth NCAA Tournament victory in the last four seasons, with head coach Nate Oats improving to 8-3 (.727) over the stretch
• Jarin Stevenson came off the bench to score 19 points on 7-11 shooting and 5-8 from beyond the arc
• Alabama connected on 70 percent (16-23) from the floor in the second half including knocking down 10-15 (67 percent) from beyond the arc
• The Tide opened the contest hitting just one three-pointer over the first 13 three-point attempts, but connected on 15-23 (.652) for the remainder of the game
• UA outrebounded Clemson 44-33 on the night and owned a 15-6 edge in second chance points
• Clemson went 8-16 (50 percent) from the charity stripe while Alabama went 15-22 (68 percent)
• The Tide ended up with 20 assists on 29 made baskets, as Rylan Griffen finished with a career-best eight assists
• Alabama finished with six swats in the game and now has accumulated 22 blocks over the last three contests, its best stretch of the season

That Final Four Confetti ?? pic.twitter.com/YTSN5KP7II — Alabama Men's Basketball (@AlabamaMBB) March 31, 2024

• After a slow start from both teams, Clemson used a 14-2 run to take its largest lead of the half at 26-13 with 7:54 left
• The Crimson Tide responded with a 20-2 run over the next 6:04 to regain the lead at 33-28 with just over a minute remaining
• In all, Alabama would go on to outscore Clemson 22-6 over the final 7:54 to take a 35-32 lead at intermission
• Jarin Stevenson led the Tide with 10 points while Rylan Griffen added eight points and four rebounds

SECOND HALF

• Clemson scored the first four points of the half to take a 36-35 lead, the last lead it would hold the rest of the contest
• Alabama responded with five straight points to regain the lead, 40-36
• Leading 62-59, Mark Sears and Jarin Stevenson hit back-to-back treys to stretch the lead to nine
• The Tide never led by less the three the rest of the way
• Sears finished the half with 18 points on 6-7 shooting from deep, while Nick Pringle added 13 points and seven boards
• The Crimson Tide will take on the tournament's No. 1 overall seed and East Region champion UConn in the 2024 NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four on Saturday, April 6
• The tip time and television information for the national semifinal will be announced at a later date

For all the latest information on the team, follow AlabamaMBB on X, Instagram and Facebook. General athletic news can be found @UA_Athletics on X and Instagram and Alabama Athletics on Facebook.

History of Elk — Washington State And Hanford Reach

To quote Bill Maher: “I don’t know it for a fact, I just know it’s true.” That seems to be the case for many when it comes to wildlife. Somehow, it’s become an accepted “fact” with many people that elk aren’t native to Washington State. They are. Elk remains, dating back at least 10,000 years, have been found in numerous archeological sites throughout the Columbia Basin. In “fact,” prior to the 1800s, elk lived in every state and province, except Alaska and Florida. Today, their range has been reduced to 24 states and seven provinces.

 And yes, the elk historically found in the Columbia Basin were Rocky Mountain elk.

Unfortunately, like many species, elk were extirpated from the state by the late 1880s, possibly as early as 1850. However, in a conservation success, 50 Rocky Mountain elk ( Cervus elaphus nelsoni ) were transplanted from Gardiner, Montana, in 1912, and an additional 7 elk from Montana were purchased from Manitou Park in Spokane in 1916. These animals were released on the Naches River in Yakima County. Additional transplants between 1913-1930 were released into the Blue Mountains and Colockum area.

In 1972, a band of five elk were spotted on the Hanford Site. From this small beginning, the herd has grown to upwards of 2,000 animals.

One of the early elk to Hanford was a bull that came to be known as Melvin. Likely one of the most intensely studied elk ever, Melvin lived to the impressive age of 17 and grew to weigh over 1,100 pounds. Known for his massive antlers, almost every year’s set is accounted for, including perhaps his largest on display at McNary National Wildlife Refuge.

Latest Stories

You are exiting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website

You are being directed to

We do not guarantee that the websites we link to comply with Section 508 (Accessibility Requirements) of the Rehabilitation Act. Links also do not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

April Fools' Day pranks: Apps to translate baby stoner sayings, a ghostbuster at Tinder

Every april 1, brands and companies want to get some laughs – and attention – with goofy new 'product' launches. here are some ideas from companies such as sweetgreen, welch's and omaha steaks..

If you don't like Mondays, this one may especially be grating. It's April Fool's Day , when you should trust no one and question everything.

The roots of April Fools' Day may date back before to before the 15th century. But the modern-day April Fools' Day has become a day to prank a friend, family member, co-worker − or your customers.

Even though some companies have had April Fools' pranks backfire , marketers continue to issue spoof products in attempts to get some laughs and attention.

Already ahead of April Fools' Day, 7-Eleven has hinted at a possible prank product: In addition to new Lemon Lime, Green Apple and Sweet Orange flavored 7-Select sparkling waters, out now with partner Miracle Seltzer, there's a fourth flavor coming April 1: Big Bite Hot Dog.

The hot dog-flavored water "combines the mouthwatering experience of 7-Eleven’s iconic Big Bite Hot Dog into one refreshing beverage – ketchup and mustard included," the convenience chain says in a press release . "Say goodbye to the days of alternating bites of a hot dog with sips of a beverage, now those on the go can swap the bun for bubbles."

Krispy Kreme: A special doughnut deal for April Fools' Day

Will Big Bite Hot Dog sparkling water be sold? Its availability will be announced April 1. However, some reporters were sent a can of the drink. USA TODAY can confirm that it definitely smells like hot dog water and has a smoky aftertaste.

If you are interested in trying it, both 7-Eleven and Miracle Seltzer have hinted at having some to give away on their Instagram pages. (If you get a can, share with a friend as it's 16 ounces.)

Here's a roundup of many of the brand-related April Fools’ gag announcements. You've been warned.

Sour cream & onion flavored soda

Despite the proliferation of crazy-flavored products including Peeps-flavored Pepsi , Frank's RedHot sauce-flavored Vlasic pickles and Doritos Nacho Cheese-flavored liquor , healthy soda brand OLIPOP and Pringles are not really teaming up to bring to market a Sour Cream & Onion soda.

The product would have been "a match made in heaven … to bring the delicious, tangy flavor of Pringles’ Sour Cream & Onion flavor to life in liquid form with prebiotic benefits," the companies said.

Stoner lingo translation app

Another dream team prank product: Rosetta Stoned, a mobile app from Rosetta Stone and medical marijuana company Fluent , that "bridges the conversational gap between novice users and seasoned stoners in any social setting."

Da da decoder

Infant equipment site BabyQuip has its own language-bridging lark: the “Baby Translator” app, to decode your baby's secret language.

"Say 'goodbye' to restless nights as you decode your baby's coos and cries instantly, providing you with the understanding you need as a parent, all in one convenient app," it promises.

An AI-powered plush doll

Custom stuffed animal maker Budsies already makes selfie plush dolls with a built-in voice recorder. Its April Fools' spoof: Artificial intelligence-enabled dolls that "come programmed to learn everything about you and to become your new best friend."

A 50-pound Bearabuddy

Sorry to the 3,500 or so who have already signed up to buy Bearaby's Jumbo Benji plush toy, which is four times the size of its regular weighted plush toys and twice as heavy as its heaviest weighted blanket . This isn't actually going to be sold. But it is real and will be making its home in the lobby at The Child Mind Institute in Harlem to welcome children and their families. More weighted plushies are due the day after April Fools' Day, the company says.

A sleeping bag to go bananas over

The Dole Banana Peel Sleeping Bag, conveniently promoted as being available on April Fools' Day only, is made from actual banana fiber and "allows parents to escape into their own cocoon of sensory deprivation."

A full-body cleaning suit

Outrageous clothing company Tipsy Elves has a special product for April Fools' Day: The Mopsie. You don't need paper towels anymore, you can use your body to clean up those messes, with this "innovative, wearable microfiber towel jumpsuit" for "effortlessly soaking up spills and messes with ease." There's also a Baby Mopsie for "hard to reach places."

Korean BBQ deodorant

Kevin's Natural Foods , which has paleo- and keto-certified ready-to-cook and easy-prep entrées, is touting a new line of personal care products inspired by its food dishes including Korean BBQ Deodorant, Cilantro Lime Toothpaste, Lemongrass Basil Shampoo and Tikka Masala Sunscreen.

"These new face, body and hair care essentials will help fans prioritize self-care inside and out," the company says. 

Omaha Steaks' meaty sprays

Omaha Steaks has its own personal care prank product: Meaty Spritz sprays with flavors such as Omaha Fog, Hog Haze, and Cock-a-Doodle-Dew.

"The world’s first protein-infused, flavor-packed, portable pump spray … (to) enjoy all the mouthwatering flavors of your Omaha Steaks gourmet favorites no matter how far away from the kitchen you are!" the company says.

Sriracha toothpaste

Asian sauce maker Lee Kum Kee , which makes Sriracha Chili Sauce and Sriracha Mayo Dressing, is introducing – not – its Siracha Mayo Toothpaste. It's "fiery and creamy goodness … is sure to spice up your morning dental routine."

Post-salad dental kit

Need some less powerful toothpaste? Sweetgreen offered these fanciful personal hygiene products as part of its Sweetgreen After Salad Kit, which is "designed with your pearly whites in mind … offering everything you need to freshen up post-meal."

Choose from Miso Ginger Toothpaste, Spicy Cashew Mints, Lime Cilantro Dental Floss, and Sweetgreen Toothbrush and Floss Picks.

Fruit juice lip gloss

More personal care prank products: Welch’s Juicyfuls Juicy Fruit Lip Gloss – now available in five flavors: grape, orange, peach, strawberry and raspberry – made with real juice from Juicefuls fruit snacks so "you get that irresistible sweet flavor you love, all in a lip gloss that's as fun as it is nourishing."

Protein-powered seasonings

Quest Nutrition , maker of protein powder, snacks and other products, has a prank product line of seasonings including All Purpose, Lemon Pepper, and Garlic Herb, each of which deliver "21g of protein, 2g of net carbs and less than 1g of sugar."

If you want to try Quest's real products, you can use code NOJOKE for free shipping on online orders over $49 April 1-3.

Superpowered Superfeet?

These would certainly come in hand on a run, but – sorry – it's a jogging joke. Superfeet SuperBoost Power E-Soles gives you 8 hours of continuous battery-powered boost, for almost Iron Man-like propulsion. "All the comfort and support of Superfeet , now with electrifying performance," the company says in a video about the prank product. "It's like having a powerful electric motor in your shoes."

Scotch tape-branded Scotch?

This shenanigan seems like a blend that could stick: Scotch Whisky by Scotch Brand. The whisky "features a nose of cherry wood and a delightfully smooth finish that hits like a well-wrapped gift."

Who you gonna call when ghosted? This new title at Tinder

Dating app Tinder announced a new April Fools' Day hiring quest for a Vice President of Ghost Hunting to help combat "one of dating culture’s most prevalent vices – ghosting," a practice inflicted on 78% of singles already in 2024 (an untrue fact from Tinder).

Patrón's bringing back a beloved liqueur. No kidding.

Patrón patrons get some good news today. The premium tequila maker chose April Fools' Day to announce the return of its Patrón XO Cafe tequila-based coffee liqueur, which was discontinued in 2021. Since production ceased, devotees took to social media and signed a petition asking parent company Bacardi to bring it back.

Made with Patrón Silver tequila and Arabica bean coffee – the dry liqueur can be sipped straight, in cocktails and as dessert topping – Patrón XO Cafe will begin arriving in stores again later this month.

Say it with dead flowers

Don't forget to put roses on your April Fools' Day list. UrbanStems has this "special" delivery, The Dead Inside Collection, "an assortment of dead flower bouquets, dead plants, half empty vases, and more for the pessimist in your life." But, for real, check UrbanStems' social media accounts including Instagram for how to get 20% off an order of real flowers.

Cheesecake Factory's real deals

The Cheesecake Factory  also has a deal that's no joke: Sign up for the chain's Cheesecake Rewards loyalty program on April 1 to get an Any Slice, Half Price reward, redeemable for 50% off any slice of cheesecake or layer cake, with any food or beverage purchase (no gift cards).

Those who were members before April 1 will find something special in their account on Monday, too: either a free slice of cheesecake each month for a year, a free whole cheesecake, a free slice of cheesecake, $5 off $25 purchases, or $10 off $40 purchases. (All rewards redeemable by April 16; can be redeemed for dine-in, to-go and DoorDash.)

New merch from Dunkin', bonus points in app

Dunkin' announced it is going back to its roots and rebranding to just "Donuts'" on Monday, April 1. To celebrate the rebrand, the company is selling "Donuts'" merch, including sweatshirts that read "DONUTS," on ShopDunkin.com .

Additionally, Dunkin' Rewards members will receive 3x bonus points on any donut order through the mobile app on April 1.

Urban Outfitters launches 'Name Three Shirts' movement

Urban Outfitters said it is launching a global movement to "stand in solidarity against band-tee-shaming" by launching a new collection called "Name Three Shirts."

The t-shirt line "playfully mocks the gatekeeping attitudes of older generations who insist that band-shirt wearers should be required to name songs by those artists," the company said in a news release.

The line, which features revamped logos from bands such as The Grateful Dead, Joy Division and Led Zeppelin, is a "playful jab at the attitudes of older generations, and fights back against the misogynistic undertones of the infamous ‘name three songs’ line of questioning," Urban Outfitters said in the news release.

The collection of shirts is available online and in select Urban Outfitters stores starting April 1. You can shop the collection online here .

Auntie Anne's, Frontier Airlines collaborate on Pretzel Plane

Auntie Anne's pretzels and Frontier Airlines announced they have collaborated on the newest addition to Frontier's fleet: the Pretzel Plane.

According to a news release, the plane includes new in-flight entertainment featuring Auntie Anne's pretzels rolled seat-side, the "luxurious" smell of hot, fresh pretzels throughout the cabin and airplane-shaped pretzels if you're feeling hungry.

Moe's Southwest Grill, Sonic team up to introduce a Queso Slush

Two popular fast food chains announced a collaboration that is sure to be polarizing.

Moe's and Sonic announced a new beverage, the Queso Slush, a queso-flavored slushie. "The frozen goodness of a Sonic Slush meets the delicious flavor of Moe's queso."

Follow Mike Snider on X and Threads:  @mikesnider  & mikegsnider .

Gabe Hauari is a national trending news reporter at USA TODAY. You can follow him on X  @GabeHauari  or email him at [email protected].

What's everyone talking about? Sign up for our trending newsletter to get the latest news of the day

Auston Matthews becomes ninth player in NHL history with multiple 60-goal seasons

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Auston Matthews continued to make his case as one of the best goal scorers in NHL history by scoring 60 goals in a season for the second time in his career.

60 Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/YlALc6i3nh — NHL (@NHL) March 31, 2024

The calls for 60 goals from the thousands of Toronto Maple Leafs fans in attendance at KeyBank Center rained down essentially from puck drop and then throughout the evening. It took until the third period for the Leafs center to corral a rebound and jam home his fourth goal in six games. Matthews’ goal sealed a 3-0 win for the Leafs.

Advertisement

“It means a lot. It’s as much of a team accomplishment in my opinion,” Matthews said.

“If you’re not going to (score his 60th goal) at home, this is second-best,” coach Sheldon Keefe said. “I love the way that the fans acknowledged it too.”

Matthews’ 60-goal campaign comes in addition to four other seasons in which he hit 40 goals. His consistency when filling the back of the net puts him in rarefied air. Only eight other players have ever scored 60 goals twice: Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Brett Hull, Mike Bossy, Phil Esposito, Jari Kurri, Steve Yzerman and Pavel Bure.

Auston Matthews becomes the ninth player in NHL history with multiple 60-goal seasons. — Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) March 31, 2024

Matthews is the sole active NHL player to hit 60 goals in two separate seasons. He is also the only American-born player in NHL history to score 60 goals twice.

“It’s special. I try to pride myself on playing a full, 200-foot game. I know I can score. I’m fortunate to play with some really good players,” Matthews added.

Matthews also leads all players with 45 even-strength goals so far this season. That sets a team record for the Leafs, which Matthews previously set in 2021-22.

“I’m trying to round out my game and play as consistent as possible, especially down this last stretch,” Matthews said. “You want to be heading into April, you want to be confident and playing your best hockey.”

With his 60 goals, Matthews continues to separate himself from Zach Hyman (52 goals) and Sam Reinhart (51) in his push for his third Rocket Richard Trophy as the NHL’s leading scorer.

“I don’t think he sets limits on himself,” teammate John Tavares said postgame. “He’s the total package.”

“He’s so dominant out there. Every year he comes back even better,” teammate Nick Robertson added.

“He’s had an incredible season. He’s scored in different ways. I’m happy for him to get that accomplishment again. He does so much for our team. It’s more than just the goals,” Keefe said.

Required reading

• How Auston Matthews came from the unlikeliest place and rose to hockey stardom
• What Auston Matthews’ path to becoming the greatest Maple Leaf of all time looks like
• In hometown, Leafs’ Auston Matthews reaches, surpasses 50 goals, continues unprecedented run
• Auston Matthews is authoring one of the greatest seasons … ever: Monday Morning Leafs Report

(Photo: Bill Wippert / NHLI via Getty Images)

Get all-access to exclusive stories.

Subscribe to The Athletic for in-depth coverage of your favorite players, teams, leagues and clubs. Try a week on us.

Joshua Kloke is a staff writer who has covered the Maple Leafs and Canadian soccer for The Athletic since 2016. Previously, he was a freelance writer for various publications, including Sports Illustrated. Follow Joshua on Twitter @ joshuakloke

• Share full article

For more audio journalism and storytelling, download New York Times Audio , a new iOS app available for news subscribers.

• April 2, 2024   •   29:32 Kids Are Missing School at an Alarming Rate
• April 1, 2024   •   36:14 Ronna McDaniel, TV News and the Trump Problem
• March 29, 2024   •   48:42 Hamas Took Her, and Still Has Her Husband
• March 28, 2024   •   33:40 The Newest Tech Start-Up Billionaire? Donald Trump.
• March 27, 2024   •   28:06 Democrats’ Plan to Save the Republican House Speaker
• March 26, 2024   •   29:13 The United States vs. the iPhone
• March 25, 2024   •   25:59 A Terrorist Attack in Russia
• March 24, 2024   •   21:39 The Sunday Read: ‘My Goldendoodle Spent a Week at Some Luxury Dog ‘Hotels.’ I Tagged Along.’
• March 22, 2024   •   35:30 Chuck Schumer on His Campaign to Oust Israel’s Leader
• March 21, 2024   •   27:18 The Caitlin Clark Phenomenon
• March 20, 2024   •   25:58 The Bombshell Case That Will Transform the Housing Market
• March 19, 2024   •   27:29 Trump’s Plan to Take Away Biden’s Biggest Advantage

Ronna McDaniel, TV News and the Trump Problem

The former republican national committee chairwoman was hired by nbc and then let go after an outcry..

Hosted by Michael Barbaro

Featuring Jim Rutenberg

Produced by Rob Szypko ,  Rikki Novetsky and Alex Stern

With Stella Tan

Edited by Brendan Klinkenberg ,  Rachel Quester and Paige Cowett

Original music by Marion Lozano ,  Dan Powell and Rowan Niemisto

Engineered by Chris Wood

Listen and follow The Daily Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music

Ronna McDaniel’s time at NBC was short. The former Republican National Committee chairwoman was hired as an on-air political commentator but released just days later after an on-air revolt by the network’s leading stars.

Jim Rutenberg, a writer at large for The Times, discusses the saga and what it might reveal about the state of television news heading into the 2024 presidential race.

On today’s episode

Jim Rutenberg , a writer at large for The New York Times.

Background reading

Ms. McDaniel’s appointment had been immediately criticized by reporters at the network and by viewers on social media.

The former Republican Party leader tried to downplay her role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A review of the record shows she was involved in some key episodes .

There are a lot of ways to listen to The Daily. Here’s how.

We aim to make transcripts available the next workday after an episode’s publication. You can find them at the top of the page.

The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Mike Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Diana Nguyen, Marion Lozano, Corey Schreppel, Rob Szypko, Elisheba Ittoop, Mooj Zadie, Patricia Willens, Rowan Niemisto, Jody Becker, Rikki Novetsky, John Ketchum, Nina Feldman, Will Reid, Carlos Prieto, Ben Calhoun, Susan Lee, Lexie Diao, Mary Wilson, Alex Stern, Dan Farrell, Sophia Lanman, Shannon Lin, Diane Wong, Devon Taylor, Alyssa Moxley, Summer Thomad, Olivia Natt, Daniel Ramirez and Brendan Klinkenberg.

Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly. Special thanks to Sam Dolnick, Paula Szuchman, Lisa Tobin, Larissa Anderson, Julia Simon, Sofia Milan, Mahima Chablani, Elizabeth Davis-Moorer, Jeffrey Miranda, Renan Borelli, Maddy Masiello, Isabella Anderson and Nina Lassam.

Jim Rutenberg is a writer at large for The Times and The New York Times Magazine and writes most often about media and politics. More about Jim Rutenberg

Advertisement