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The web in 1996
Back in 1996 the web was in its infancy; people referred to the new technology by its full name – the World Wide Web – and connected to it by noisy modems, tying up the phone line as they did. A page took minutes to load (using Internet Explorer 3.0), and you paid for your internet connection annually, as well as by the hour!
Google was just an idea in 1996 – a research project by Larry Page – and Yahoo! was king of the search engines. When you searched for a site on Yahoo!, you searched a directory of websites that was built by real humans; Yahoo! employees would painstakingly review submissions and rank them manually.
1996 is also when BF Internet was born – originally as Big Fish internet. A bit like looking fondly through old computer games of the 80’s, we take a look through the websites of 1996 and marvel at how far we’ve all come:
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- AOL – Visit the 1996 site
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- Apple Mac – Visit the 1996 site
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- Coca-Cola – Visit the 1996 site
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- Hotmail – Visit the 1996 site
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- HP – Visit the 1996 site
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- Intel – Visit the 1996 site
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- Lego – Visit the 1996 site
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- Microsoft – Visit the 1996 site
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- McDonalds – Visit the 1996 site
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- NASA – Visit the 1996 site
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- Pepsi – Visit the 1996 site
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- Yahoo! – Visit the 1996 site
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- Big Fish – Visit the 1996 site
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Awesome to see these screenshots, brings back a lot of memories. One thought… I think the web is still in its infancy, or toddlerhood at best. We only think we’re mature now. Who knows what it will all look like in two more decades.
May 11th, 2009 at 3:31 pmIndeed Brandon – where next! I was only listening the other day to a podcast about the ‘new’ HTML 5. The work has been in progress since 2004/5 and it will be ’several years before the entire spec is finished’. Support in browsers will then follow…maybe some things don’t move so fast :)
May 14th, 2009 at 5:17 pmWhat scares me the most isn’t the fact that those sites have changed so much over the years… it’s the fact that I actually remember some of these sites looking like this :-s
August 18th, 2009 at 4:34 pm