Go Network in 1999

The Go Network’s website from 1999. There are traces you can spot today by visiting abcnews .com and checking the URL you’re redirected to.

Posted on November 22, 2025

Go Network was Disney’s big swing at the early web boom in 1999—a bright yellow, portal-style homepage that tried to compete with Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL. It launched in January ‘99 as part of Infoseek (which Disney had bought in 1998) and pushed itself as a one-stop spot for email, search, news, and even streaming audio—back when “streaming” meant waiting forever on dial-up. Go.com got a facelift in 2000 to tighten up its portal features, but the traffic never hit the numbers needed to compete. By early 2001, Disney pulled the plug on the Go.com portal, quietly rebranding it into a simple directory of Disney sites. If you were online during the late ‘90s, you probably remember that bold green logo and the era when everyone thought the internet needed a single homepage to rule them all.

The Go Network’s website from 1999. There are traces you can spot today by visiting abcnews .com and checking the URL you’re redirected to.