Sega Web
From Sega Retro
- For the division within Sega of America, see Sega On-Line.
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| Sega Web |
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| Current owner(s): Sega of America |
| URL: http://www.segaoa.com |
| Created on: 1994-11-07[1] |
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(The) Sega Web was the original name for Sega of America's World Wide Web website, which launched in November 1994. It is notable for being one of the first websites operated by a video game company, launched days after Sega Forum on CompuServe, which was briefly seen as a rival platform to the World Wide Web. Both platforms shared content for the first couple of years, after which the website became the only internet service offered by the company.
Sega were unable to register the "www.sega.com" domain until mid-1996, forcing them instead to go with "www.segaoa.com" (which would subsequently redirect for several years afterwards).
While Sega would launch websites for Japan and Europe, this American site came first, likely owing to the fact online infrastructure was the most developed in that region. Little of the Sega Web site has been archived; Internet Archive's Wayback Machine did not start caching pages until 1996, and its first crawl of Sega of America's website was in December (after it had been re-branded Sega Online).