Between 1983 and 1985, Piero Scaruffi (who at the time was a software engineer working on the soon-to-be-named-Internet) created his first e-zine, distributed by e-mail over the soon-to-be-named-Internet. Between 1986 and 1990 he created an online database, downloadable via ftp. That database mutated into his own website in 1995, after the World Wide Web was invented. It became one of the very first websites, and possibly the first website ever to carry the name of its owner (for lack of imagination). So www.scaruffi.com has existed in one form or another since the 1980s.