Do you know how the world’s biggest websites looked like at launch?

Internet has grown a lot, since from its rise during 90’s. The top websites like Google, Facebook, Youtube, Amazon and Twitter were once started as Incubators. There were no WEB 2.0 technology, but those top sites had only few HTML pages to start with. With the help of Mashable.com and Wayback machine, we were able to find out how those top websites looked like in the past.

To our surprise, it’s hard to believe those top websites were once just a simple web page. Their growth thereafter is well known story to every internet user.

Have a look at the screenshot of the world’s biggest websites at launch,

Google wayback
Google.com just had a simple HTML page during its launch @ Sept. 4 1998
Facebook wayback
It was not Facebook, it's thefacebook
Yahoo wayback
Yahoo.com just had a search bar with few links to other websites @1995
Amazon wayback
Amazon, the largest online shopping website, had only few texts and icons @ 1995

 

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