This is the very first website I ever created.
In February of 1995, Dale Williamson and I convinced a young inventor named Jon Torrey that the most forward-looking place to put his young company was on something called the World Wide Web.
His product was a new technology that allowed optometrists to prescribe special glasses to relieve computer eyestrain.
"A Site For Sore Eyes" went live on version 1.0N of the Netscape browser.
We got a lot of things wrong and had to re-design the site at least three times in the first year. But www.Prio.com went on to become a web powerhouse, using the same home page creative until 1999.
It still looks pretty cool.
How's Prio doing?
They're now a multi-million-dollar success. And the corporate history section
of www.prio.com (which now includes streaming video) proudly notes:
1995
PRIO launches web site—the first Internet site devoted to educating
consumers and eye care professionals on vision problems related to computer
use, and one of the first optical web sites.
