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Evolution of Websites: 10 That Have (And Have Not) Changed

wakeuplater.com — In the year 2008, having created websites for over half my life, I look back and see how much websites have changed in the last decade and a half. At the same time, I can see how little they've changed as well, and I've realized that the internet as we know it today is only a teenager, with many years of growth still ahead.

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  • Maddenman2000, on 03/24/2008, -1/+83Myspace now: http://www.myspace.com/
    3 years ago: http://www.myspace.com/
    5 years ago: http://www.myspace.com/
  • elitistmusician, on 03/24/2008, -1/+73Anyone else miss frames?

    Me neither.
  • inactive, on 03/24/2008, -8/+79I saw CNN today and 5 years ago and realized we've been in this stupid war in Iraq for way too long. sigh.
  • mvanhorn, on 03/24/2008, -1/+68Bring back the days when ESPN.com didn't auto start a video with audio.. ugh
  • damnitdaniel, on 03/24/2008, -2/+40This article will be much more interesting in 8 years.
  • fwertz, on 03/24/2008, -2/+36"Decaf or Java?" Hah.

    I think Star bucks had a pretty nice design in comparison to modern sites. You know, minimalist.
  • inactive, on 03/24/2008, -4/+20maddox.xmission.com never changed, never will.

  • joeridehouwer, on 03/24/2008, -1/+15Proves again that webdesign is dependent on technological advances... Higher resolution monitors, more bandwidth, flash plugin. You can clearly see all these sites progress from 640*480 to 800*600 to 1024*768.
  • rebotfc, on 03/24/2008, -1/+15Why did i just click on those 3 links :/
  • ShawnDEvans, on 03/24/2008, -4/+17uh? No mention of Google or were the changes so subtle that it wasn't worth including?
  • ChairShot83, on 03/24/2008, -0/+13How many people you think actually clicked on all three links to see the 'difference'?
  • doshindude, on 03/24/2008, -2/+15well....http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/ hasn't changed since '96.....it was a test to see if it could crash browsers.
  • floppyparty, on 03/24/2008, -0/+10"Granted, it looks like the oldest version here might be missing its CSS, but it's still lagging behind in design."

    Yea, you know, because CSS doesn't really have much to do with webpage design.
  • jordanleegauci, on 03/24/2008, -0/+8goatse hasn't changed as well
  • edwartica, on 03/24/2008, -1/+9I still use frames. Maybe that's why I don't get any hits to my website. :P
  • edwartica, on 03/24/2008, -0/+7It looks like a Scientologist indoctrination manual to me.
  • antdude, on 03/24/2008, -0/+7They would probably sue to hand it over.
  • timusca, on 03/24/2008, -1/+85 years? Try now.
  • HonoredMule, on 03/24/2008, -1/+7How can it be less interesting now than it is now?
  • StealthMonkey, on 03/24/2008, -4/+10That was clearly done on purpose as a statement.
  • phatedesigns, on 03/24/2008, -3/+9wow... that 404 page has come a long way in ten years!
  • antdude, on 03/24/2008, -0/+6Flash Blocker. :P
  • iamnobody8614, on 03/24/2008, -1/+7you didn't actually read the story, did you?

    or even the headline in its entirety?
  • groverblue, on 03/24/2008, -0/+5"Let ME design YOUR corporate sight!"
    rotfl
  • spyrochaete, on 03/24/2008, -0/+4ICANN states on their website (google it) that domain names are not copyrightable. You can get in trouble for impersonating a company (e.g., phishing) but otherwise there is no entitlement when it comes to registering domain names; first come, first serve.
  • theodenking, on 03/24/2008, -0/+4Funnily enough Amazon UK looks exactly the same as Amazon US eight years ago -_-
  • TheSabre, on 03/24/2008, -0/+4Did it need to be proven again? I think it's pretty much a given that as technology advances, the way we use technology will advance too.
  • TheSabre, on 03/24/2008, -0/+4Haha...from the last MTV screenshot:
    "If you're using Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or Netscape Navigator 3.0, then you'll never look at the web the same way again."

    Classic. I'm going to go put that on my website immediately.
  • smacksaw, on 03/24/2008, -1/+5If either of the Yahoo examples in the middle (#2 and #3) were still Yahoo today, Google would not be my homepage.

    Yahoo - this is why you're being bought out. We told you not to change and you did anyway. If you're not going to listen to anyone, you'd better be pretty smart. And you aren't. Glad I sold your stock 10 years ago.
  • coolcole93, on 03/24/2008, -1/+5Mirror?
  • inactive, on 03/24/2008, -1/+5It's perfect. Don't mess with it.
  • edwartica, on 03/24/2008, -0/+4true. Which would of sucked considering I was a starving college student in those days, and they are a multi-national corporation.
  • BrendanSheehan, on 03/24/2008, -0/+3The story, the image or the war?
  • GruntboyX, on 03/24/2008, -1/+4ya think? Not to mention the headline "Clinton says Democrats hold keys to brighter future" Its this kind of crap that gives The Fox news viewers ammunition to their networks legitimacy.
  • jjustice, on 03/24/2008, -1/+4The Digg effect will never change ;-)
  • anderzole, on 03/24/2008, -6/+9what about some love for one of the first search engines... webcrawler!
  • yojiffyskippy, on 03/24/2008, -0/+35 years ago - http://www.duggmirror.com
  • twrife, on 03/24/2008, -3/+6Was I the only one who was really looking forward to seeing Google?
  • Hobbes24, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2god damnit, broken links, my bad.
  • MikeWanDo, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2I can't say I've ever heard evolutionists called sheep before. Usually it's the creationists who are the sheep. But none of that really matters since we're talking about websites... and I'm pretty sure God didn't make websites as they are today.
  • feliks2, on 03/24/2008, -2/+4And who may you be, swine?
  • TheMarvel, on 03/24/2008, -1/+3Yes.
  • edwartica, on 03/24/2008, -1/+3I almost bought Starbucks.com in 1997. They didn't own it back then - no one did. I don't know why I didn't buy it. I have kicked myself ever since.
  • SSUK, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2It's a reflective surface.
  • edwartica, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2My gosh....I love the comments...
    "dear fag yuor web site is the gayest arse licken peice off ***** site i have eva seen
    i think u should get kicked in the balls with a steel capped shoe
    love tim"
  • pingudownunder, on 03/24/2008, -1/+3Another great example is the beeb:
    1996: http://web.archive.org/web/19970428002851/http://w ...
    1997: http://web.archive.org/web/19970428002851/http://w ...
    1998: http://web.archive.org/web/19990128045212/www.bbc. ...
    2002: (dunno which muppet came up with BBCi): http://web.archive.org/web/20020124121058/http://w ...
    2008: http://www.bbc.co.uk/
  • yojiffyskippy, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2"Looking foward to" --- No.
    "Expecting" -- Yes.
  • blindmonkey, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2I hope nobody with epilepsy clicks that link...
  • inactive, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2hasn't changed in 3 years, no new post or anything. now that's commitment
  • edwartica, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2Agreed. Yahoo's categories were a sure fire way for me to find anything I needed. Once they took those away, I stopped using yahoo for anything more than a spam email account.
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