In the summer of 1995, a group of editors and other staff members of The Arizona Republic and Phoenix Gazette worked on a ‘semi-secret’ project — created Phoenix Newspaper’s first online products.  The group started with creating a sub-site on American Online. Later, we created an Internet [Web] About AZ Central.

We used our imaginations and research into other online pioneers to figure out what  the home screen, the secondary screens and menus.  It was an interesting and challenging project.

AZ Central officially launched in November 1995