Talk:Business Wire/Archives/2020

Early web site

I worked for the company that developed the original Business Wire web site back in the 90s, Harrison & Troxell. There are some references on the Harrison & Troxell web site about doing that work that are captured in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, but nothing of high enough quality to count as a citation for the launch date of the Business Wire site. There are also Wayback Machine captures of the early Business Wire site as it existed in late 1996, though it mostly doesn't work because the site was largely database-driven even back then.

Alas, the connection with Business Wire was both the making and the downfall of Harrison & Troxell. The one client represented over half the company's business. When Business Wire hired a new CEO he decided to bring in his own favorite IT company rather than continue the relationship with H&T. H&T never recovered from the loss of that large client, compounded with the end of the first internet boom.

Links: Early 1997 H&T web site: https://web.archive.org/web/19970131173450/http://www1.hnt.com/ 1999 writing about developing the Business Wire site: https://web.archive.org/web/19990127201647/http://www.hnt.com/ Business Wire as it existed in late 1996: https://web.archive.org/web/19961019132235/http://www.businesswire.com/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdulcey (talk • contribs) 03:35, 24 June 2020 (UTC)