Surprisingly online journalism is nothing new- in 1981 the San Francisco examiner went online. At $20 to download the paper (most of which which was spent on just the phone call) it was not a revolutionary it was not revolutionary it was an important step online.
Thirteen years later in January 1994 the Palo Alto Weekly, a local Californian newspaper, launched its website – and the Internet’s first newspaper website. This launch came less then two months after the launch of Mosaic the first web browser capable of displaying graphics.