Sites that said something:Sites that said something:This page appeared on the DaveNet website on 2/10/96, as the web blackout was winding down.Sites are arranged in three categories, those with strong elegant statements about free speech and/or black backgrounds; sites that made no statement; and reference sites I used to gather pointers from. Some of the links don't work anymore. That's the way it goes!
See the DaveNet piece Elegant Statements for background. See Michael A. Norwick's analysis for another point of view.
Big blue ribbon on home page, links to EFF page.Elegant blue ribbon on secondary page, superimposed over main graphic on page.
Blue ribbon, link to EFF page.
Big blue ribbon, link to EFF page.
Big blue ribbon, link to EFF page, strong personal statement.Beautiful job, very creative!
Black background, editorial and pointer to EFF page.
Black background, two blue ribbons, link to EFF site.
Blue ribbon, link to EFF page; links to web-present venture capitalists.
Black background, blue ribbon, link to EFF page.GNN is AOL's Internet access provider.
Blue ribbon, link to EFF page.
Animated blue ribbon, black background.No link to EFF page.
Black background, big blue ribbon, link to EFF page.This is the Java site at Sun.
They give it their whole home page. Wow!
Note that Sun's corporate page has nothing to say.
Black background, no ribbon, link to editorial page is broken.
Blue ribbon, link to EFF site.Marc: how about doing some animated blue ribbons?
With music!
Blue ribbon, link to EFF page.
Black background, big blue ribbon, link to EFF page, strong personal statement."Any material that's legal in Barnes & Noble or the New York Public Library should be legal online!"
Blue ribbon, link to EFF page.
It's black, with beautiful editorial statement, link to Yahoo protest page."Netscape supports open standards, including First Amendment rights to free speech."
Black background, link to editorial.
Black background, free speech statement, link to EFF page, rings of Saturn are blue!
Black background, link to editorial at bottom of every page.
Big blue ribbon, link to EFF page.
Black background, beautiful blue ribbon with a guitar in background, link to EFF page.
Blue ribbon, link to EFF page.
Black background, link to editorial, JavaScript banner asking for email on the Telecomm bill.Interesting site -- these guys do software that filters sites based on content
Black background, link to an editorial page.
Black background, blue ribbon, link to EFF page.
Large blue ribbon, link to EFF page.One of the first sites to do a blue ribbon and go black.
Black background, blue ribbon, link to EFF page."this is what censorship looks like"
Big blue ribbon, link to EFF page.
Black background, blue ribbon, link to EFF.
Black background, better than a blue ribbon!Oooops -- as of 10:30AM Pacific -- it's back to a gray background, no free speech message.
Sites that didn't say anything:Accel backs lots of net-based software and service companies, prides itself on competent web presence
PhotoShop, PageMill, Acrobat, PageMaker, FrameMaker company.
A leading online services company. Usually outspoken in Washington.
Maker of Macintosh.
Screen saver software company, in Berkeley (of course!).
PC development tools, including a Java development system.
A leading news website.
A leading online services company.
One of the most popular sites, according to www.webcrawler.com.
An Internet coffee bar in Cambridge, MA.
DEC -- makers of PDP-11s, VAXs, servers, and the fantastic Alta Vista search engine.
An early-stage venture capital firm.
Networking hardware and systems.
Recently repositioned Telescript as a web communications system.
Web development tools.
Humwin backs lots of net-based software and service companies.
Makers of mainframes, accounting and database software, owners of Lotus.
Web database company, sold to Informix.
A leading computer industry publication, serving corporate users.
A leading Internet search engine.
EFF board member and founder of Sun Microsystems and The Little Garden.
Kleiner backs lots of net-based software and service companiesNot sure if this is the Kleiner home page.
Makers of spreadsheets, suites, Notes; owned by IBM.
A leading Internet search engine.
The Macintosh geeks magazine.
One of the leading Macintosh magazines.
The only Macintosh weekly print magazine.
Makers of multimedia development tools. A Java licensee.
Makers of professional development tools for the Macintosh. A Java licensee.
Makers of operating systems, both client and server; suites, web browsers. A Java licensee.
Maker of databases and web back-ends. Larry Ellison is chairman.
Industry newsletter written by David Coursey.
Time-Life online presence.
An up-and-coming online software company.
Writer and editor for Salon.
Game company.
They do WebStar, the leading Macintosh web server.
Maker of workstations and Java.
Pioneering service provider in San Francisco.
Contains politicians who fear free speech on the Internet.
Internet service provider, partnered with Microsoft.
One of my favorite ski resorts.
One of the most popular sites according to www.webcrawler.com.
Black background, but no ribbon, no link to editorial.Fred Davis's site.
Reference points:This page points to the companies that Accel has invested in.
Sites mentioned in past DaveNet pieces.
Focal point for the blue ribbon protest.
This page points to the companies that HumWin has invested in.
Design guidelines for webmasters on blue ribbons.
Focal point for the black-page protest.
They keep a list of the 25-most pointed to sites.It's pretty out of date, last time they built it was 10/2/95.
A huge list of sites that went black.