The first election in which each media was used for campaigning

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Internet is kind of dicey because while the campaigns had websites in 1996, they didn't really "use" them in the way that we think of websites being used today. I remember my 3rd grade class sitting in the library for computer class and logging onto the Clinton and Dole campaign websites and the reaction was basically one of awe and novelty that such things merely existed, even though the websites themselves were so primitive that you were basically reading a campaign pamphlet on a computer screen rather than on a piece of paper in your hand.

1996 was the first year the Internet was used. It didn't really become relevant to the campaign strategies and to public perceptions until 2004.

4President.com actually has the websites archived. They are quite funny in hindsight. I love comparing the 2012 websites to the 1996 ones.

1996.
2012.

I'm very surprised the Republicans had a website in 1996, rather than dismissing it at some kind of new-fangled demonic voodoo. 

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Internet is kind of dicey because while the campaigns had websites in 1996, they didn't really "use" them in the way that we think of websites being used today. I remember my 3rd grade class sitting in the library for computer class and logging onto the Clinton and Dole campaign websites and the reaction was basically one of awe and novelty that such things merely existed, even though the websites themselves were so primitive that you were basically reading a campaign pamphlet on a computer screen rather than on a piece of paper in your hand.

1996 was the first year the Internet was used. It didn't really become relevant to the campaign strategies and to public perceptions until 2004.

4President.com actually has the websites archived. They are quite funny in hindsight. I love comparing the 2012 websites to the 1996 ones.

1996.
2012.

I'm very surprised the Republicans had a website in 1996, rather than dismissing it at some kind of new-fangled demonic voodoo. 

Actually, internet users would most likely have been an overwhelmingly Republican group at the time. IIRC Bush won something like 70% of people with an internet connection in their house in 2000.

Joke, wormy.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Why didn't the liberals use the Internet in the 1990s?

Our side just didn't have the money for the latest technology.

Indeed.  My dad is a huge tech buff, so he threw a lot of money at getting Internet into our house as early as 1996.  Actually even stuck after my parents got divorced a year later, but I remember I was one of a very, very few kids in school who had it... and this is in a relatively affluent Philadelphia suburb. 

It was so slow that I don't remember much other than my cousins ******* around with perverts in the AOL group chats.