{"id":141523,"date":"2022-07-01T20:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T01:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/this-is-what-elon-musks-first-website-zip2-looked-like"},"modified":"2022-07-01T20:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T01:22:22","slug":"this-is-what-elon-musks-first-website-zip2-looked-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/this-is-what-elon-musks-first-website-zip2-looked-like","title":{"rendered":"This is What Elon Musk\u2019s First Website (Zip2) Looked Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-what-elon-musks-first-website-zip2-looked-like3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Global Link Information Network was founded in 1995 by Elon Musk, his brother Kimbal Musk, and Greg Kouri who provided $6,000 in funding. Elon famously dropped out of pursuing a PhD at Stanford in energy physics\/material science two days into the program to pursue the opportunity. Global Link Information Network was later renamed as Zip2 and served as a directory for local businesses. In 1996, Zip2 starts pulling data from American Business Information Inc. (ABI) and starts a self-comparison to yellow pages that will continue throughout its lifespan as a brand.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A timeline showing Elon Musk\u2019s first website (Zip2) and its evolutions over the years, starting from 1996 and ending in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Link Information Network was founded in 1995 by Elon Musk, his brother Kimbal Musk, and Greg Kouri who provided $6,000 in funding. Elon famously dropped out of pursuing a PhD at Stanford in energy physics\/material science two days into the program to pursue the opportunity. Global Link Information Network was later renamed as Zip2 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2019,1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-elon-musk","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}