Star Trek Helped Influence the Web? Prove It.

[Andonagio]

Conventional wisdom holds that Star Trek was greatly influential during the Web's early years. Some of the first fan pages were for Star Trek, the first studio-endorsed promotional website for a film was Paramount for Generations, etc. However, I'm trying to track down literature (books, articles or other references) that verify the role Star Trek played on the Web in the 1990s.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[OmahaStar]

I've heard that Star Trek: Voyager was the first television series with an official website. While now commonly and every tv series has at least one official website, back then it was unheard of.

And StarGate, which co-starred Star Trek's Erick Avari, was the first motion picture with an official website.

 

[CTM]

Well, many of the internal names of servers were often Star Trek related, even if publicly known as something else. For example the Virginia Tech mail server was "holodeck.cc.vt.edu" internally, but known externally as something else. Similarly, there was picard, crusher, riker, etc. Each one for a different service. Of course in later years of the 90s newer servers that went on-line were like "gkar.cc.vt.edu" and "vir.cc.vt.edu" as Babylon 5 themed names replaced the older Star Trek themed names. I don't know that I would qualify these factoids as being "pivotal" to the development of the web, though they were common "under the hood" then (and in many ways still are, my office has a Homer, Lisa, Marge, Bart, Apu, Krusty; and a Fonzie, Chachie etc. etc.)

 

[Andonagio]

Fair enough, but it all seems to be rumors and innuendo. Are there any official claims or evidence that some of the earliest websites were Star Trek sites? I'm working on a research paper about the history of the web and would like to cite some credible sources.

 

[Sector 7]

Fair enough, but it all seems to be rumors and innuendo. Are there any official claims or evidence that some of the earliest websites were Star Trek sites? I'm working on a research paper about the history of the web and would like to cite some credible sources.

Ask Al Gore, rumor has it he invented the internet.It is also canon, because it appears in Futurama more than once.
CTM, I love the avatar!