Ten years ago, I was just a little 5-year-old toddler whose eyes were usually glued to the television screen, watching cartoons. At that time, I didn’t how to use the computer yet unlike my fellow friend – Zhou Tong who knew how to operate the bulky machine by the age of 4. Impressive! As my childhood days started to decrease each day, I was exposed to the world wide web, an ever-expanding world of websites.
Now in the year 2009, I’ve no idea how those popular websites (Google, Apple and Microsoft) looked like in the late 90’s. Fortunately, all thanks to the waybackmachine internet archive, I’m still able to to see some of the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 pioneers looked in their earliest incarnations and how they have changed over the years. Check them out below…
Google in 1998
Google in 2009
Yahoo in 1995
Yahoo in 2009
Facebook in 2004
Facebook in 2009
YouTube in 2005
YouTube in 2009
Wikipedia in 2001
Wikipedia in 2009
Blogger in 1999
Blogger in 2009
MSN in 1995
MSN in 2009
Baidu in 2000
Baidu in 2009
MySpace in 2003
MySpace in 2009
Twitter in 2006
Twitter in 2009
Microsoft in 1998
Microsoft in 2009
Apple in 1996
Apple in 2009
Amazon in 1995
Amazon in 2009
Flickr in 2004
Flickr in 2009
AOL in 1996
AOL in 2009
Hi5 in 2003
Hi5 in 2009
Photobucket in 2003
Photobucket in 2009
BBC in 1996
BBC in 2009
Ask.com in 1996
Ask.com in 2009
CNN in 1995
CNN in 2009
Adobe in 1996
Adobe in 2009
Deviant Art in 2000
Deviant Art in 2009
ESPN in 2004
ESPN in 2009
Friendster in 2002
Friendster in 2009
LiveJournal in 1999
LiveJournal in 2009
Mozilla in 1998
Mozilla in 2009
Tagged in 2004
Tagged in 2009
The Pirate Bay in 2003
The Pirate Bay in 2009
New York Times in 1996
New York Times in 2009
Digg in 2004
Digg in 2009
Dell in 1996
Dell in 2009
HP in 1996
HP in 2009
Fox News in 1996
Fox News in 2009
Hulu in 2007
Hulu in 2009
IGN in 1998
IGN in 2009
Skype in 2003
Skype in 2009
AT&T in 1997
AT&T in 2009
Sony in 1996
Sony in 2009
Symantec in 1996
Symantec in 2009
Hotmail in 1996
Hotmail in 2009
