HISTORY: 1994 - 1997

In 1994, the Age of the Web was just beginning. The first international WWW conference was held at CERN. A couple of college kids started keeping a list of what few websites existed and called it Yahoo!. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded. Netscape was a new company with a beta project, while Microsoft didn't have a browser at all.

At the same time, the precursor to GMD Studios (The Radiation Group) was experimenting with how traditional media, software and game design might "mutate" from being exposed to digital community. During this era, everyone involved in the Web was an experimental pioneer. Over the next year, many of those early pioneers (including us) began forming optimistic corporations well in advance of when any real industry existed.

Browser wars, spam filters and dot-com booms might not have been the industry all of us were imagining, but none of that existed yet. In a world where you had to explain what the Internet was to most people, finding other people who "got it" was rare enough to form instant bonds and fruitful collaborations.

EXPLORE PROJECTS FROM 1994 - 1997:

Radiation Group (1994)

The loose collaboration called The Radiation Group was a hodge-podge band of experimental media hackers, pushing the boundaries of what we might be able to get this HTTP protocol to do artistically. From it emerged both the core nucleus of our company and a significant set of tools for pushing what webservers could do, called Intelligent Systems, which would become the key behind many of the brands we developed.