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?
February 6th, 2009 at 1:42 am
I thought Google wasn’t really “live” for the general online audience until 1998? In fact, I’m fairly certain of it. I remember getting into Google at the end of ’98 and being astonished at how much better than Excite (my search engine of choice back then) it was. And I remember when Google partnered with Dmoz and I think that’s when Google won me over, because Yahoo! just seemed so parochial and insular to me and I had *such* issues about it for that reason, and Google’s free and easy search prioritization and Dmoz’s community-based spirit (before the age of Wiki) made me feel warm fuzzies about Google. Also, I remember when I had Win98 and how badly Netscape reacted to that, which is why I think it kinda went downhill; I had to resort to using IE in my Win98 days because Netscape, which I still preferred, always seemed to crash in the Win98 environment. It wasn’t until my first days with XP when I learned about this fabulous thing called Firefox that I was successfully able to escape IEdom.
Dear Lord, I feel like I’m that grandfather who yammers on and on about his hardscrabble childhood. Pls to fetch me slippers and a cane kthx.
January 14th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Man those were the days, does anyone remember a place called Arcadium. i remember when GEO cities came out that was cool my address there was TimesSquareAlley9231 i don’t even beleave i remembered that. thanks for the memorys