Who needs any of those other tech blogs like Gizmodo or TechCrunch when you have ReviewsOnLine.com? Well, maybe everyone, considering this website was last posted to (according to the "News" page) on July 20th 2006, and the most recent review being posted on October 25th 2002.
This website design is actually quite good-looking for web 1.0 (though a little unoptimized, but that's expected), and it has quite an extensive list of reports about tech news along with product reviews (known as "Product Briefs"). It's honestly kinda sad seeing a website with such effort put into it being abandoned like this, but I guess it came down to adapt or die, and they didn't adapt.
Below is a list of all the main pages of the website:
Contents: The "Contents" page is just their name for the homepage, which you view upon going to their domain. It showcases the most recent news stories they covered, the most recent conventions they've attended, and (on the right side bar) the most recent product reviews.
Reviews: Despite referring to reviews as "Product Briefs" while on the page of a review, they I guess just decided to call the page itself "Reviews". For some reason the most recent review on this page was posted on January 8th 2001, over 1 and a half years before their last review , as mentioned earlier, posted on October 25th 2002 (seen at the top of the right side-bar on the "Contents" page).
News: The "News" page is actually home to the most recent reviews, along with a big list of companies (which leads to the most recent reviews or news articles about that company on the website) labeled "Companies in the News" at the top of the page. This list of companies seems to be the most recently updated elements of the website (besides the copyright date in a few select places), being last updated (as mentioned previously) on July 20th 2006.
Archives: A long list of links to various articles about conventions, products, and more general tech news. Not much more than that.
Index: An alphabetical list of products which the site has reviewed organized by company, people which the site has written about (also in alphabetical order), and events which staff of the site have attended.
Search: A way to search specific articles which seems to have since broken (it always sends me to this "Article has been moved" error page).
About: Standard about page containing info about the site and it's purpose/goal, what they do, etcetera.
Gallery:
The front page of the site.
The sites outdated "Review" page.
The slightly more up-to-date News page.
The archives of Reviews OnLine.
The index page of Reviews OnLine (I know I don't need to say their full name but it's just fun to type out in full).
The broken search page of Reviews OnLine.
All about the site.
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