nice post
Google 1998 make me lough..

I wonder how you could get the idea to create this great post. If only I could make an interesting post like you, perhaps my blog had already been well-known by now..at least probably I could get more than just 5 feed subscribers?

zaxta:
it’s not a very unique idea. Lots of blogs have written about this and the screenshots probably isn’t taken by mr Hongkiat himself ;)

awesome all that you post
today excellent !
so funny, so interesting, a lot of thing to analize!

Lovely, just made me laugh!

Good Ol’ Time…

I remember most of them even if I was only 12.

For me, the amazon and pc world and google is the most look like 10 years ago

go back to future with http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html

Very nice post. Where did you get the images ?

Nice read dude. Down memory lane…

Very good the Post!

Great post, I just looked over wayback machine if anybody is interested to find out more sites and how they looked 10 or more years ago. If You are interested I just suggest to check my article too, it’s pretty similar though –
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/resources/wayback-machine-history-of-internet/

@Karl Although I’ve not read similar stuff anywhere online but I have to agree someone should have done it before, but the screen shots were originally made by me.

@Guys, In case you are wondering, the old screen shots were taken from Internet Archive.

10 years ago!!!…

Incredible photos…

Are you sure 10 years have passed ??? They look like yesterday !! I still remember them so clearly ! Ah the good old days of the Internet …. where an animated GIF created such an incredible visual impact ! :-) …. great post !

Thanks HongKiat for the great stuff!

I was kinda expecting Mozilla to be in this list :P

WOW! Time really flies… Looking at all these, very nostalgic hehehe… I remember that I signed up for Hotmail and it looked like that. 10 years had passed…

Apple PC impressed me a lot.
Thanks for sharing~~

I never know the Google BETA interface in 1998, very classic.
Most of the list I’ve visited, but never know 10 years site look likes before. Great.

I didn’t realize “The Matrix” came out 10 years ago. I’m getting old =/

This is the 1st time i’m seeing such article. Period.

1998?
i was still playin’ plastic toys for goodness sake. haha

Great post. :)

I am curious how you got those screen shots, it is interesting.

The Matrix debuted in theaters on March 31st 1999.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/

One think I’ve noticed is that all of the old pages had underlined hyperlinks, while all of the new pages omitted the underlines on the links.

Interesting how most of these websites have barely changed at all really. Some sort of layout, same sort of content on their homepages. Whatever they started doing must have been good and they’ve stuck to it. Maybe that’s why they are still here 10 years later?

The most dramatic change was with Yahoo. They went from HTML to every ML

i wonder who remembered to take the pics so that they can be compared 10 years in the future !

well, i’ve been wondering how time passed by so quickly..
1998… i was in high school…
cool! let see in the next 10 years, what will gonna change?

very good idea…

this is history.

All of them look familiar to me, except Hotmail… I used Mailcity/Lycos back then… Still do for anything I have to sign up for. Pretty sure I had a hotmail addy though, so I am not sure why I don’t recognize it. I have been online since 1996…

gosh i miss good old hotmail

hahaha… looks like site i would make today.

just like 10 years ago your images take ages to load. you’re off the RSS list.

Blinking text used to rock. Man, hotmail was pretty fugly.

Hotmail is okay cuz it’s free. Otherwise, it gives me a bad case of gas…

Wow Google had newsletter signup in 1998 hmmmm lol

hahaha that was awesome…. TIMES changed their look again and it looks old

Nice post! I remember these (and other) websites in their infancies – I was a BBS and IRC user in ‘92, started “surfing” in ‘94 – so, this was a nice trip down memory lane. The lack of a proper grammer/spell check made me cringe a bit, but overall it was a fun read! :D

WD n GJ!

Hi !
I like the old website of google ! it was very funny ! like BD …

Wow that is so weird to see that.
I didn’t have internet in 1998 it was only two years later we decided to get it. But this is some real nostalgia here.
This is a really great post and I love the site.

Thinking back, in ‘98 I wasn’t using the internet yet, but I bet I would have found those designs beautiful. I love the fact that most of them kept the same, or at least a similar, main page structure. Nice post.

superb find man

Funny how many of these are dated 1999 on the screen shot.

lol Amazon doesn’t seem to have changed much. The same over-flowing content and same not-so-eye-candy layout and design.

very interesting from the past.
if you wanna see some interesting sites, click on my name above!
updated every 2-weeks.also click on the…previous sites…button
upper left.

Whay is ebay.com not shown? :)
Did it used to be called “AUCTION WEB’??

haha. yap. its totyally different..

yahoo was like that ten years ago.
yes, how time flies!!

Great post! Very interesting to see the change in 10 years of internet. I’m wondering what it looks like in 2018!

Now this is something interesting and yeah I remember what yahoo looked like back then. It was our primary source of search needs.

Excellent stuff! Thanks.

Hmmm 10 years ago…everything is change!

Google 1998 make me lough.. hahaha

Views have changed over the years. So as the technology behind the designs. Great post!

funny :)

The Apple one is hilarious!

amazon is still same

great stuff,the sites were nice in the past too.

Would you agree, to the most part, they all just added a CSS sheet with some more images haha

!Yahoo ‘98 gives me a good memory.
Nice observation though, keep it coming.

That prediction about the VW leaving the Prius in the dust never panned out; i remember being really impressed and intrested in an article i read. it was about an interactive computer communication system that would span the globe. The article went on to state that it had already been deployed for military purposes, but that it would explode once it reached the private sector. One of the hinges of this floodgate was a man who wrote a failproof encryption code (for those of us who are allergic to eavesdroppers) which, once the feds tried to prevent him from releasing it commercially, put it on the internet as on open source. It was one of those “free Willy!” moments as the whale reluctantly makes his way to the open sea. “Free the encryption code!” Protect your right to privacy.

its all about “change”
u know “change ve need”
hm!

omg.. those hotmail and yahoo interface.. remind me my highschool year

Its “the past decade”, NOT “the pass decade”. Jesus, did you graduate high school?

Kind of asinine to label it Amazon 1998 when the screen shot clearly states it was October 13, 1999

And http://www.mailxmail.com ?

What’s appened !

I am using internet since 1996. i paid 250 RS/- to access the net. and 40 RS/- to send a single mail. from that time onwards i am the witness for the technology change. Nice Share. If you can compare windows 2.0/3.0/3.1/3.11 with Windows Vista that would be gr8. Novell 2/3/4 with Open Suse will be gr8.

Thanks & Regards,
V.U.M.Sastry Sagi

Nice post. I love the waybackmaschine!

That was a great post! Dont know where you could source those images from but still it is great to see how far the internet has come, and how it could evolve in the next 10 yrs.

Love Yahoo 1998. It’s cool

Yahoo was just a bunch of text links :)

lol , this is actually the first time I see those sites and how they looked ages ago, i’ve just been introduced to computers in the year 2000 !! lol

I think it is funny how in some way some of these sites have not changed at all. I mean the design looks better but the functionality has not changed and in fact certain sites like Sun and PCWorld look like they are a little less user friendly. Yeah they look “pretty” but do they function any better? I just see more links and drop downs and items to make the user want to puke. Why can’t companies understand that to make the user experience better is so much of the battle. Look at the Google example and notice that in 10 years not much has changed on that site except for cleaning up the graphics and making some of the links that are on the page have to do with user experience. I guess thats why they are the big boys now. I would like to see a list now of these sites from 2008 to 2009 and what has changed if anything. I know Yahoo changed there site and made the user experience a little better although they still have too much going on in one page in my opinion.

Diskets in pcworld 10 years ago!!! i still have diskets in my house… 5 1/4 can you belive it!

I think Amazon is the best website when we score it from the design, because it has cool design even in ‘98.

Looks like google’s website is pretty much the same as 10 years back design. Simple, clean, tidy and neat.. very nice. I like google website :)

The sites looked so minimal. Imo minimal is better. Thanks for the blast from the past! :p