After 31 years Salon is ceasing publication. The online journalism game is obviously nothing like it was when they started back in 1995. Yikes I'm old.

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I am saddened to hear of their closure. As a fellow oldie who began reading them in high school when they debuted (and thought of myself as very sophisticated for doing so), I shall miss them.

I went looking in the Wayback Machine for the earliest archive of salon.com, which is from April 3, 1997 - https://web.archive.org/web/19970403013441/http://www.salon.com/

Amusingly, this domain wasn't even theirs at the time, since the page welcomes hair salon professionals to the WWW! However, that site links to "Salon Magazine" via the charmingly quaint "E-Zines" link, which links to a different domain, salon1999.com . IA's first capture of this site seems to be from December, 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981212032509/http://www.salon1999.com/

Are the first three years of Salon archived anywhere, or lost to internet history?

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