How 20 Popular Websites Looked When They Launched

Collected by telegraph

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.

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.

 

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