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Donald Trump's Lost 1990s Websites

The president was all about GIFs, Flash, and #C5B358, but it wasn’t until the rise of the mobile web that he really found a home online.
Source: Internet Archive

Donald Trump is a television and tabloids kind of guy.

It’s easy to see why. Broadcast and publishing platforms helped make him a star. Page Six crowned Trump the unofficial king of New York’s gossip pages in the 1980s and 1990s. The reality-TV craze of the 2000s ensured he remained a household name.

Today, it has been suggested that you can tell which cable news station Trump is watching by tracking his tweets—which at times seem to be direct responses to whatever’s being said on air. (Often, Fox News.)

Trump’s love of television notwithstanding, he is very much a president for the internet age—and not only because, with his infamously trigger-happy Twitter finger, he is making full use of the self-publishing power of the internet.

In fact, Trump has a decades-long presence online.

As a trip through the Internet Archive’s

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