The Internet of 1996 - 1997. A Wayback Tour [pics]
Internet History September 11th, 2007Some existing companies like Ebay and Amazon seem to be preventing their old identity from being resurrected. However, some of the old heavy hitters (alive and dead) can still be seen in all their startup glory.
Google - 1997
Yahoo - 1996
MSN - 1996
(this one’s kind of weird. Not sure about it’s accuracy)
Monster 1996
AOL 1996
Netscape 1996
Lycos 1996
Geocities 1996
Prodigy 1996 (”Untangle the web” …love it)
Excite 1996
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September 11th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Hey this is really cool! I love the Monster.com one, I had no idea that it was so basic back then.
September 26th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
That was very good moments. I rembeber very well that netscape header.
December 19th, 2007 at 5:04 am
I remember that geocities website, because i once had their account. a long time a go.. w00t w00t!
December 19th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Wow, this is certainly making me feel my age. I remember all of these.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:21 pm
The funny thing is that my mom just got rid of her prodigy email account last year….
December 21st, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Google hasn’t changed a lot, it’s nearly same
December 21st, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Wow, I love the Google one. I had no idea that it was so basic back then.
December 22nd, 2007 at 3:29 am
Excite used to be the bomb!
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:54 am
I remember using netscape and the killing it took when IE came out. Mister Softy scuttled the ship.
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:59 am
very nice.:) (in Turkish = Çok iyi bir çalışma.:))
December 22nd, 2007 at 7:29 pm
I remember when Lycos was one of the most powerful search engines and I used it for any search. I also remember when Google started to be popular and my friends telling me “You have to check out the new way to search through Google. The results are so much better than Lycos.”
December 23rd, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Wow, I love the Google one.
December 31st, 2007 at 2:28 pm
I remember the google one cos i used to use it back then! Looks funny looking at it now though!!
March 31st, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Gosh, I remember that was Yahoo back then. Now we have all this XML,Javascript,Flash crap. Can’t we just go back to plain ol’ HTML?