How Top 20 Popular Websites Looked When They Launched
Posted on | September 2, 2009 | 14 Comments
Top 20 Popular Websites looked when they launched! Images/List courtesy of Telegraph.co.uk and archive.org. Figured this would be an interesting thing to post up. I always like to look back at some of the Web 1.0 designs. Hell, I still (SADLY) design some “Web 1.0″ websites. Still trying to unleash my inner creativity (and learn the skills it takes to move up 
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1. google.com – launched in 1996
2. facebook.com – launched in 2004
3. myspace.com – launched in 2003
4. yahoo.com – launched in 1994
5. youtube.com – launched in 2005
6. wikipedia.org – launched in 2001
7. msn.com – launched in 1995
8. apple.com – launched in 1987 (screenshot from 1996)
9. drudgereport.com – launched in 1997
10. amazon.com – launched in 1995
11. twitter.com – launched in 2006
12. whitehouse.gov – launched in 1994
13. craigslist.org – launched in 1995
14. nytimes.com - launched in 1995
15. news.bbc.co.uk – launched in 1997
16. dell.com – launched in 1996
17. friendsreunited.com – launched in 2000
18. telegraph.co.uk – launched in 1994
19. blogger.com – launched in 1999
20. flickr.com – launched in 2004
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"there's nothing like having a vision, imagining it, making it, then having it work, especially if your very being depends on it"
September 2nd, 2009 @ 8:29 pm
Amazon hasn’t changed much, LOL.
September 3rd, 2009 @ 2:58 am
LOL! Exactly what I thought!
September 3rd, 2009 @ 12:50 pm
great post
i remember well those websites, i connected on the net since 1995, tucows was another awesome web 1.0 site style, too!
September 3rd, 2009 @ 1:29 pm
Ooh, how it brings back memories.
September 3rd, 2009 @ 7:12 pm
some of those looked awful lol
September 4th, 2009 @ 4:45 am
I bet these were the creme de la creme (too lazy to get the accent marks) of web site development back then. Crazy how times have changed… I’ve spent the last 4 hours fixing up just a couple graphics on some sites just because I didn’t feel they attracted users enough.
September 7th, 2009 @ 11:03 pm
Wow, I love this article! I remember facebook from when it was thefacebook… and you had to be in college to use it. Oh, the good ol’ days…
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September 10th, 2009 @ 1:42 am
LOL!! I remember your article; it is really surprise for me. Thanks for sharing.
September 10th, 2009 @ 1:50 am
Congratulations! You discovered the way back machine from the Internet Archive’s website. Is this really news?
September 10th, 2009 @ 2:32 am
Not news… more entertainment
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September 10th, 2009 @ 6:27 am
Great..i like it…
September 10th, 2009 @ 6:39 am
awesome man! i am not attached with internet from beginning of Google and this post give me an idea… about how Google use to look at start
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sam
September 10th, 2009 @ 6:52 am
The blog is really interesting to visit. It has all information about top 20’s .Great…great.. achievement. fine
September 18th, 2009 @ 6:43 am
Useful. Thank Hey nice sharing content really interesting.