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How 20 popular websites looked when they launched
telegraph uk ^ | Published: 5:04PM BST 02 Sep 2009

Posted on 09/03/2009 11:15:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Remember the days when the word Google was not interchangeable with internet? Or when every site seemed to have a Netscape icon on it? Or when Flash was still something you cleaned your floor with? Then you were clearly using the web in the mid to late 1990s when pages were rudimentary affairs containing lists of links and information.

Thanks to the waybackmachine internet archive, we're still able to see some of the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 pioneers looked in their earliest incarnations.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; History
KEYWORDS: donkeyspunkman; internet
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Somehow they managed to miss FR!

1 posted on 09/03/2009 11:15:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

apple.com in 1987? um NO!


2 posted on 09/03/2009 11:18:27 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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To: BenLurkin

#14 is still irrelevant...


3 posted on 09/03/2009 11:18:51 AM PDT by John123 (If Teddy was the lion of the senate... then we were the prey.)
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To: BenLurkin

Here you go:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961221165158/http://freerepublic.com/


4 posted on 09/03/2009 11:21:25 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: HonkyTonkMan

“apple.com in 1987? um NO!”

You’re right.

It should be at least Oct 22, 1986
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.apple.com


5 posted on 09/03/2009 11:22:25 AM PDT by Sparko (Obama & Czars: neutering the American Voter, perverting the Constitution, all on our dime.)
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To: mnehring

Or for more

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.freerepublic.com


6 posted on 09/03/2009 11:23:24 AM PDT by Sparko (Obama & Czars: neutering the American Voter, perverting the Constitution, all on our dime.)
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To: mnehring

1996!

Thank you.


7 posted on 09/03/2009 11:23:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: HonkyTonkMan

Actually, it was in 1987. Apple.com was one of the first 100 domain sites ever registered and established. It was 02/19/1987

http://www.whoisd.com/oldestcom.php

There are supposedly some images floating around of the site, one of the first ever in existence.


8 posted on 09/03/2009 11:24:37 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: Sparko

See post #8- Archive.org only goes back to 1996 but Apple.com was one of the first websites ever, all the way back to 87.


9 posted on 09/03/2009 11:25:37 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: BenLurkin

I remember a lot of them!


10 posted on 09/03/2009 11:25:48 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: BenLurkin

BTW, Borders Books used to have a big NAMBLA graphic!


11 posted on 09/03/2009 11:26:50 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Sparko

it’s 1996, not 1986 sparky


12 posted on 09/03/2009 11:32:40 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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To: BenLurkin
Just for fun, check out the old Apple forums from 2001:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=500

I still can't believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player? I want something new! I want them to think differently! Why oh why would they do this?! It's so wrong! It's so stupid!

LOL....

13 posted on 09/03/2009 11:34:51 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: BenLurkin

I remember the gray backgrounds and stuff


14 posted on 09/03/2009 11:35:37 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: BenLurkin

LOL... I remember the abacus.


15 posted on 09/03/2009 11:35:46 AM PDT by Gator113 (It's about stupidity, stupid. IMPEACH HERE, IMPEACH NOW.)
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To: HonkyTonkMan
Applelink.

Eworld.

Apple didn't waste any time recognizing the potential behind that new communications medium. Even if they didn't settle on a 'web-site' until later.

They registered the domain name way before most other companies even knew that the internet existed at all.

16 posted on 09/03/2009 11:36:34 AM PDT by gratefulwharffratt
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To: HonkyTonkMan

Oops, looks like I took the wrong time to quit crack.
Thanks.


17 posted on 09/03/2009 11:39:41 AM PDT by Sparko (Obama & Czars: neutering the American Voter, perverting the Constitution, all on our dime.)
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To: BunnySlippers

“BTW, Borders Books used to have a big NAMBLA graphic!”

Source? Or date, using the wayback machine?


18 posted on 09/03/2009 11:39:50 AM PDT by Yossarian
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To: BenLurkin

I remember when Yahoo looked like that (even earlier, actually)... wish I’d invested.


19 posted on 09/03/2009 11:40:40 AM PDT by Sloth (Ted Kennedy's brain tumor has killed more people than my gun.)
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To: mnehring

Domain names are a bit different than web pages. HTML/W3 was still conceptual in the late 80s. Interesting though


20 posted on 09/03/2009 11:41:12 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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