disney.com was first registered on March 21, 1990. On February 12, 1996, a ten-day preview of disney.com is launched through
America Online and
Netscape. In January 2007, Disney CEO
Bob Iger announced a major overhaul of Disney.com at the
Consumer Electronics Show. The announced changes put a heavy emphasis on an integrated video player. Further changes were also announced to sort content based on visitor demographics and the addition of social networking features that would be
monitored for appropriate content. The newly redesigned website was unveiled in February 2007. It included a new service called Disney Xtreme Digital (Disney XD for short, not to be confused with the
channel of the same name), which allowed members to communicate and interact with each other in chat rooms. Users were limited to select phrases and the ability to create their own Disney XD page, which were called channels. Disney XD allowed users to watch full-length episodes from
Disney Channel and other videos, play online quizzes and games, stream
Radio Disney and preview new movies and music albums. It included a further feature called Shop DXD. Shop DXD used an internal currency called D-Points that users could earn from playing games and activities on the website. D-Points could be used to purchase items such as backgrounds and phrases for a user's channel or chat rooms. The service was only available in the United States and the United Kingdom. The Disney XD initiative was later de-emphasized and split into My Pages for pages and Homeroom for TV episodes. The Disney XD name was later recycled by the
Disney-ABC Television Group, another division of
The Walt Disney Company to launch
Disney XD, an unrelated television network launched on February 13, 2009, as the successor to
Toon Disney. They later added
Disney Create to the website, an art gallery where users can draw and publish their art.
Disney Create closed on May 1, 2014. == References ==