Internet History
Internet History for the early years of the web.
Atlantic Financial became started as a pioneer in the early days of the world wide web.
Bruce Fenton founded Atlantic Financial in
1994. This page outlines some basics of the history, archive,
websites, business plans, and the historical, boom of the dot com market.
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 |
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1994
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Time Magazine cover story:
"The Info Highway: Bringing a revolution in entertainment, news,
and communication" April 12, 1993. e
Note: Time Magazine is a
registered trademark owned by Time Magazine |
1994
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In December of 1994 Bruce Fenton founds Atlantic
Financial and Atlantic Financial's first website is created. At
the time there are very few investment firms of any kind on the
world wide web, certain discount firms had been on the Internet
for some time in a format knows as BBS's or Bulletin Board
Systems in 1994 even very few of these pioneers had sites on the
World Wide Web. Today the www is synonymous with the
Internet itself.
This website is one of Atlantic Financial's
earliest renditions, it was created by Bruce Fenton and some
very smart MIT graduates who founded their own web company.
It seems funny to look at now, but this site was actually
relatively high tech for its time. |
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. |
1996
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In 1996 Atlantic Financial added some new
features relating to quotes and news and experimented with a
more stylized design. |
1997
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By 1997 Atlantic Financial had several hundred
pages of content and the first page took on a more search engine
style look. |
2000 to 2004
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Through the late 1990s and early 2000s, Atlantic
Financial continued to develop customer services including the
addition of several new investment products and services, the
creation of the Law Firm
Investment Services Program, improved managed account
features and more. |
2005 to 2006
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Atlantic Financial enjoys a solid list of
satisfied individual and corporate customers across America and around the world.
We are thankful to our clients, partners, affiliates and vendors
who have contributed to our ongoing success. |
Today
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Today, Atlantic Financial helps
investment professionals, institutional investors and
individuals implement strategies to participate in our changing
global economy. |
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.
Contact us to speak with a representative today.
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