1994 - the Internet Ice Age Pioneer
Atlantic Financial always saw the Internet as simply another tool to
help customers never as the end all be all of business existence or
a get rich quick scheme.
Just like phones, paper, mail, bricks
and mortar and PCs, the Internet is a tool, nothing more, nothing
less.
Atlantic Financial's recognition of this is why we grew prudently
and thrived despite the dot com shakeup.
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Timeline |
1995
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Another Internet pioneer, Yahoo is shown here with an early
rendition of their site.
At the time you could "tour
Yahoo" by simply clicking every link they had.
As more and
more sites were added, this became harder to do and one day
impossible.
Yahoo has never looked back by 1995 days of
being able to tour Yahoo were gone for good.
Note: Yahoo! is a registered trademark owned by Yahoo Inc.
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Since the early days in the history of the Internet in the 1990s, Atlantic
Financial has been among the pioneering financial services firms offering client
services on the Web.
E-commerce activities throughout Internet history bore witness to the rise and
fall of many well-meaning companies. Even before the dot-com era, Atlantic
Financial regarded the Internet as another powerful tool to help customers
receive excellent service and support.
As a result, Atlantic Financial's recognition of the true value of the Internet
to business endeavors is the reason why the company grew prudently and thrived
despite the dot com shakeup. Founded in 1994, Atlantic Financial was among the
first financial firms that had a web presence even during the early history of
the Internet, particularly e-commerce.
The year 1994 was an eventful year in the history of the Internet, according to
Zakon Group LLC. The Internet (then known as ARPANET) celebrated its 25th
anniversary in 1994, and communities such as Lexington and Cambridge in
Massachusetts, started being “wired up” directly to the Internet. 1994 was also
a hallmark year in Internet history for government, as the U.S. Senate and
Congress started offering information servers. All over the world, some of the
first government sites included: the Japanese Prime Minister on-line; UK's HM
Treasury on-line; and New Zealand's Info Tech Prime Minister on-line.
The history of the Internet also recorded the blossoming of e-commerce and
e-business activities in 1994. The first shopping malls began to arrive on the
World Wide Web that year. First Virtual, the first cyberbank, opened up for
business. The first banner ads – for Zima and AT&T – appeared on hotwired.com.
Internet history during the 1990s saw more and more companies that began to see
the value of establishing a web presence for their services and products. The
relative ease with which many companies can establish online storefronts has
inspired the proliferation of web-based businesses during the mid- to
late-1990s.
Hundreds of Internet-based startup firms fed the clamor of investors who were
hungry for the next big investment opportunity. Low interest rates and record
amounts of venture capital funds during 1998 and 1999 helped increase startup
capital available to entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, while many of the new dot-com
superstars were gifted entrepreneurs, many others were just people with ideas
who didn't effectively and prudently manage the influx of capital. The latter
class of entrepreneurs comprised the management of many of the dot-com companies
that went bust in 2000.
Atlantic Financial has weathered the many ups and downs throughout the history
of the Internet. President and CEO Bruce Fenton never regarded the Internet as
the “end all, be all” of business existence or a get-rich-quick scheme. “Just
like phones, paper, mail, bricks and mortar and PCs, the Internet is a tool:
nothing more, nothing less,” says Fenton.
Atlantic Financial enjoys a solid list of satisfied customers across America and
around the world. We have been here for clients through boom and bust, through
mania and panic, through all the events our nation has been throughout the
events of the last decade. We are thankful to our clients, partners, affiliates
and vendors who have contributed to our ongoing success.
How we can help you
Atlantic Financial has been here for clients through boom and bust, through
mania and panic, through all the events our nation has been through over the
last decade.
We are here to stand with you as well.
If you open an
account with Atlantic Financial we will strive to do everything possible to
treat you with the respect and level of attention that has helped make us so
successful in helping people like you.
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