WDTN.COM  Circa. Jan 10, 1997

Dayton, Ohio's 1st news station website, 2nd place in Dayton Daily News's 1st annual best of the web. WDTN.COM was created in 1996, however this was its first major spike in usage.  The website has multiple links for different parts of the website such as weather, news, bios, etc. its a very centeralized website.  Source https://web.archive.org/web/19970110140605/http://www.wdtn.com/wdtn/index.html

https://infoweb-newsbank-com.oh0063.oplin.org/apps/news/document-view?p=NewsBank&t=pubname%3ADDNB%21Dayton%2BDaily%2BNews%2B%2528OH%2529/decade%3A1990%211990%2B-%2B1999&sort=YMD_date%3AD&hide_duplicates=2&fld-base-0=alltext&maxresults=60&val-base-0=WDTN.COM&docref=news/0F51B4D43B0299F4

I think its imporant because it shows how Dayton slowly grew and adpated to the age of computers and websites.