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Type of site | SaaS |
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Dissolved | 2007 |
Successor(s) | YourWebApps.com |
Headquarters | Boston, MA, USA |
Founder(s) | Sean Brunnock |
URL | www.server.com |
Launched | September 1996 |
Current status | Defunct |
Written in | Perl |
Server.com was a software as a service (SaaS) provider that offered a suite of services from 1996 until 2007. [1] It was the first SaaS site to offer a variety of services and the first to use the term WebApp to describe its services. [2] It was selected as an Incredibly Useful Site by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine. [3] net magazine listed Server.com among the 100 most influential websites of all time. [4]
Server.com launched in 1996 [5] offering the first online personal information manager. [6]
In 1997, they rolled out the first threaded message board service; the first web based mailing list manager; one of the first online calendar services; and one of the first online form builders. [7]
In 2000, Server.com partnered with NBCi and became server.snap.com until 2001. [8]
In 2001, Server.com was serving 100 million monthly pageviews. Media Life declared it one of the 20 biggest ad domains on the Web. [9]
In 2002, Server.com developed one of the first web-based RSS aggregators. [10] [11]
In 2007, all services were moved to YourWebApps.com. [12]
The domain name Server.com was sold in 2009 for $770,000. [13]