From Google to youtube, from craigslist to flickr - how some of today's biggest sites looked back in the early days of their existence.
Remember the days when the word Google was not interchangeable with internet? Or when every site seemed to have a Netscape icon on it? Or when Flash was still something you cleaned your floor with? Then you were clearly using the web in the mid to late 1990s when pages were rudimentary affairs containing lists of links and information.[via telegraph]Thanks to the waybackmachine internet archive, we're still able to see some of the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 pioneers looked in their earliest incarnations.
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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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