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In December 1996, Brookline launched its first town government website, shown in a homepage screenshot from July 1997. The site, according to an article in the Brookline TAB, “will provide Brookline residents an on-line forum for the exchange of information and ideas.” (This first town site was built and maintained for the town by the Community Newspaper Company, which also owned the TAB.)
In 2001, Brookline’s town government, which had taken over and upgraded the website, launched a revamped site and installed an information kiosk in the lobby of Town Hall. The kiosk – no longer in use and seen in storage in a later photo—provided visitors to Town Hall with “a means of looking up information on the Town’s website and an index of services provided, as well as a listing of phone numbers and a telephone for calling departments or employees.”
A 2024 image shows the home page of the town website as it looks today.
Ken Liss is president of the Brookline Historical Society.