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1995 - 2006

Microsoft Office FrontPage

“FrontPage made building and managing a website possible through a visual editor.”

Birth year
1995
Shutdown year
2006
Lifespan
11 years
Peak era
Company
Microsoft
Category
Software

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What Was It?

FrontPage made building and managing a website possible through a visual editor. It connected the page-making process with the practical work of publishing a site, appealing to people who did not want to write everything by hand.

Its retirement closed a familiar route into early personal and small-business web design.

The Story

  • 1995 The product era documented here begins in 1995. FrontPage made building and managing a website possible through a visual editor.
  • 2006 Microsoft Office FrontPage reached its documented retirement milestone in 2006. The date identifies the original product’s development, distribution, or support boundary; existing copies and successor projects can have different lifetimes.

How It Died

Microsoft Office FrontPage reached its documented retirement milestone in 2006. The date identifies the original product’s development, distribution, or support boundary; existing copies and successor projects can have different lifetimes.

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