About the length of a commercial, give or take. Lightning Bolt was founded in 1991. I decided to make a little stack that got the scripts out of other HyperCard stacks. Of course, companies don't do much unless they have a way of getting software to the people, so Lightning Bolt took off in 1995, when it made its Internet debut. By 1996, we were a fully mature Internet startup.
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Our original web site was hosted by AOL and was exactly one page in size. Information, Betaware, Previews, and Software. As time went by I modified it again, this time adding a beautiful image map by which you could access the sections of the page, as well as a blinking top news story kind of thing. Then came the major overload. The web page was redone, modern style.