Monday, February 6, 2012

Travelling Through Time With Internet Time Machine




We are not kidding – time travel is really possible! With today’s technology it is only possible in the internet and in TV series such as Lost but we think it will soon be possible in real life.


How?  WaybackMachine collects snapshots of the web since 1996, so you can play around in the old times of the internet. The loading speed of those websites also some how reminds me of 1996 dial up connection. Nevertheless, here are some of our discoveries:

Google.com in Dec 02, 1998

 


Clean and tidy from the beginning, I only hate those ugly looking green rectangles. The interesting thing is, that Google hasn’t changed a lot – even kept the original buttons.


Yahoo.com in Oct 17, 1996

 


Messy and overcrowded from the beginning..

Myspace.com in Jan 17, 1997

 


They had the best Logo designer in those times.

Mozilla.org in Dec 07, 1998

 


Nice header.

McDonalds.com in Nov 10, 1996

 


Very friendly website – they had 2 versions: Adult and Kids, not like websites in these days :(

Find 10 differences

 

Adult version:

 

Kids version:


I can see more “M” letters in the second version, and one of the pans moved behind the guys back.
P.S. today’s McDonald.com website looks worse than in 1996.

Bestbuy.com in Dec 25, 1996

 



Okay some how 

AOL.com in Dec 20, 1996 

 

 


A little change from the one that I can remember 

Blogger.com in Oct 12, 1999

 

  

Digg.com in Dec 09, 2004

 

  

It’s incredible how much the internet has grown up and especially in design – it became much more beautiful.
Now it’s your turn to travel through time! Go to WaybackMachine and have fun there -  just don’t forget to share your discoveries in the comment section.

P.S. The site WaybackMachine block where I live. Maybe it work at other places. 

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