Blogs We Love: How They Look Like When They Were First Launched

By grabbing information and snapshots from ‘Technorati Top 100 Blogs‘ and Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, I’ve compiled a list of how these popular blogs which we read daily look like when they were first created years ago. These blogs are currently ranked within the top 10 placings of the Technorati list and they have gained popularity worldwide.

Let’s take a look at how these websites look like when they were first launched, comparing with that it is now.

 

The Huffington Post

2005

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2009

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TechCrunch

2005

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2009

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Engadget

2005

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2009

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Boing Boing

2000

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2009

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Mashable

2005

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2009

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Lifehacker

2005

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2009

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Ars Technica

1999

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2009

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Stuff White People Like

2008

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2009

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Gizmodo

2002

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2009

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Smashing Magazine

2006

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2009

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