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Here from The Wayback Machine™
archives are screen captures of how some of the most popular websites looked back when they first came onto the
scene. This group features websites of general interest, like Google, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, YouTube,
New York Times, UK Telegraph, and Drudge Report.
With the exception of Google and to a lesser degree the Drudge Report, content has greatly increased over time.
This is due mainly because as recently as 2000, the standard computer display screen resolution was still
somewhere around 800 x 600 pixels (today it is 1024 x 768), and most people were still using telephone dial-up
Internet connections. If your computer even has a telephone modem, try using it to view a website like Yahoo! and
be amazed at how painstakingly long you have to wait just for the homepage to render.
Google - launched in 1996 |
Google - in 2009 |
Facebook - launched in 2004 |
Facebook - in 2009 |
myspace- launched in 2003 |
myspace - in 2009 |
Yahoo! - launched in 1994 |
Yahoo! - in 2009 |
YouTube - launched in 2005 |
YouTube - in 2009 |
Wikipedia - launched in 2001 |
Wikipedia - in 2009 |
Drudge Report - launched in 1997 |
Drudge Report - in 2009 |
UK Telegraph - launched in 1994 |
UK Telegraph - in 2009 |
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