Preserving some of the earliest content published on the World Wide Web — from one of the first cat pages to pioneering internet newsletters, early web directories, and Oregon's first real estate website.
The complete history of the Kleinman family's journey from a single HTML page about their cat in 1995 to building some of the web's most successful independent publications — Cosmetic Connection, DVD Talk, Ask The Makeup Diva, The Kleinman Report, and more.
Among the first cat pages on the internet, these early web documents represent a moment when the web was young and the idea of a page dedicated to a cat was genuinely novel. Published in early 1995, before the explosion of cat content that would come to define internet culture, these pages capture the spirit of personal web publishing in its infancy.
Created by Heather Kleinman, HomeWeb was one of the first websites focused on real estate and home improvement in Oregon. It was featured in The Oregonian newspaper, reflecting the novelty of the medium at the time. The site curated resources for home buyers, gardening, decorating, and home improvement during the web's earliest commercial period.
HomeWeb represents an important moment in Oregon's web history — when local businesses first recognized the potential of the internet as a medium for real estate information, years before online listings would become standard.
Geoffrey Kleinman presented at WordCamp Las Vegas in 2009 on "Managing a Large Group of Online Contributors" — sharing practical insights and lessons learned from building and running DVD Talk with over 60 writers and contributors. This presentation captured the state of web publishing and community management at a pivotal moment.
Geoffrey Kleinman's personal blog originally ran on Movable Type and later migrated to WordPress. Published from 2004 through 2010, it captures a pivotal era in online publishing — containing posts about technology, film festivals, podcasting, the Portland scene, and the early days of web media. The blog serves as a time capsule of the mid-2000s web: a period when blogs were replacing news sites, podcasting was new, and the independent web was still thriving.
This archive contains 98 individual posts preserved in their original HTML format, offering insights into Geoffrey's thinking during DVD Talk's peak years, the rise of streaming media, film festivals, and the evolution of online publishing.
This digital archive preserves a crucial moment in internet history — when web publishing was personal, when newsletters were cutting-edge, when every online property required significant effort to build. These pages document not just what was published, but what web culture looked like in its formative years.