Bel EPA 1995
The home page of BEL Electronic Publishing Associates in 1995, running as a "left
luggage" system, i.e. a dedicated server within the Avon
Internet Business Park subnet.
There is a later version (March 1996), with more Associates on the Internet Archive. Associates were artists and designers and the Arts Council-sponsored Bristol Hub.
BEL EPA was set up to explore how a publicly-accessible Internet server could be of use to media authors. Associates were able to access a wider range of server facilities than was commonly available.
Back in '95, the widening geographical range of visitors to one's website was still a novelty. I made a point of adding its national flag to the home page for each new nationality of visitor.
Before the advent of aggregate indexers like Yahoo and Google, many websites had a dedicated search engine. Many website still do maintain a dedicated search engine - in order to provide specially indexed content and to avoid becoming dependent on commercial indexing companies.
Although the earliest incarnations of BEL EPA were served by NCSA Mosaic, we were early adopters of Apache and HTML 3.0
The specification for HTML3.0 was written at Hewlett Packard's Research Laboratories in Bristol by my colleague Dave Raggett in the same year that BEL EPA was conceived.