{"id":6698,"date":"2024-08-07T13:02:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T13:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincon.com\/site\/?page_id=6698"},"modified":"2024-09-13T18:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T18:13:42","slug":"about-lincon-com","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lincon.com\/site\/about-lincon-com\/","title":{"rendered":"About LincOn.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"linco-3811352110\" class=\"linco-before-content linco-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7218081052625257\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7218081052625257\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2982622224\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LincOn.com was founded in 1993 as way to help people find information on the Internet in an easy and organized matter.  It&#8217;s founder, David Broer, borrowed from graphical user interfaces to create a graphical portal where users could find sites at a time when text dominated the Web experience.  The first incarnation was called Edison! and Edison illuminated the Internet with it&#8217;s Graphical user interface.  The Edison.com domain was sold and LincOn.com was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Company Timeline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1993 &#8211; <\/strong>Company is founded<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1994 &#8211; <\/strong>Company launches it&#8217;s first Website<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1995 &#8211; <\/strong>Edison! is launched on edison.com.  It&#8217;s a downloadable graphical interface to the Internet.  Later, search utilities are added so users could search the content of thousands of Websites.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1997 &#8211; <\/strong>Edison! is promoted around the industry in magazines and newspapers.  It now contains the larges collection of search utilities on the Internet and has over 30,000 users every day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1998 &#8211; <\/strong>The edison.com domain is sold to Southern California Edison and with it that Edison! is transformed into LincOn.com<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1999 &#8211; <\/strong>LincOn.com adds new services like email, forums and other content<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2003 <\/strong>&#8211; LincOn.com transitions away from linking to sites and to providing search results along with unique guides of information not found anywhere else.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023 &#8211; <\/strong>LincOn.com celebrates 20 years of providing guides to unique information<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2024 &#8211; <\/strong>LincOn.com celebrates 30 years of having a Web presence and being an early pioneer in the dot com era<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Today<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LincOn.com prides itself on having 30+ years of a Web presence and proving information to millions of people over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have any questions, suggestions or just want to reach out to us, please contact Dave at <a href=\"mailto:dbroer@lincon.com\">dbroer@lincon.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Privacy Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our privacy policy can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/lincon.com\/site\/lincon-com-privacy-policy\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"linco-2157927244\" class=\"linco-bottom linco-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7218081052625257\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7218081052625257\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2982622224\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LincOn.com was founded in 1993 as way to help people find information on the Internet in an easy and organized matter. 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