Websites Back in 1998
The end of twentieth Century brought a boom in the usage of Internet, while many sites began to emerge on the web, which now are at their peak of popularity and success. Its pretty amazing and interesting to know what these sites would have appeared if we would have visited them back in 1998.
Since technology and web designing was in its embryonic stages and was developing slowing by leaps and bounds, we could easily imagine how they would have looked like; where an animated GIF created such an incredible visual impact!
Here is a list of 8 websites as they appeared in 1998 compared with how they look in the present days.
Google 1998
Google 2008
Yahoo 1998
Yahoo 2008
Hotmail 1998
Hotmail 2008
Microsoft 1998
Microsoft 2008
Apple 1998
Apple 2008
Sun Microsystems 1998
Sun Microsystems 2008
Amazon 1998
Amazon 2008
Times 1998
Times 2008
Yahoo has not improved, it’s the shitty same.
Personally I prefer the original Yahoo instead of all the clutter of the new layout.
Nice and informative article…
I really like the Apple site now; nice and smooth design. Amazon has quite stayed the same, but it’s good just the way it is. I love the simplicity of google, you just type what you’re looking for, click, and that’s it, that’s also the main reason I DON’T like Yahoo; there’s just ‘too much stuff’.
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I prefer the old Hotmail to the new garbled mess of an e-mail service.
I have seen that in wayback machine.
1998 websites from Wayback Machine:
Google
Yahoo
Hotmail
Microsoft
Apple
Sun Microsystems
Amazon
Time
There is a real look for you guys, hope you like it.
Google if for men,
Yahoo is for pussies.
wowow really amazing, technology has gone really far between 11 years. lots of changes.
It sure has! 🙂
I cant wait till holographic web pages!