Yahoo in 1996!

[Rezo]

Hey all,


Today I saw this : http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/.

It's how Yahoo! main web page looked at the very beggining in 1996. Just thought it would be interesting to know for yahoo geeks :)

Regards,
Rezo

[Dude111]

Yup i've known of the archive site for awhile now :)

[prue187]

Yuck! good thing I became an Internet user during the year 1998.

[Rogem]

:P I like how simple it was for the time. It's a lot like our lo-fi version's we have today on some forums.

[Reliq.]

Well the internet was created I believe in 1992, that was advanced for a 1996 website...trust me. Back then it was more like WOW not yuck.

[Anita]

Funny, looks more like a really busy version of Google than anything else.

[Reliq.]

Google was based on yahoos design.

[soniqhost.com]

I looked at them at different years, you can see them become more commercialized every year.

[drewbe121212]

heh, I remember that.
Back in the days when Yahoo and altavista were the king searches. Oh, and
their was this one search that used all the other search sites as searches can't remember the name. It used frames and you would put your search into the top frame and would click on "yahoo, altavista" etc and it would load the query in the bottom frame... good stuff :)

[drewbe121212]

Google:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.google.com

The first set is particularly interesting. "Nov 11, 1998".
http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com/

On that page their is nothing but two links.

They read:

Google Search Engine Prototype
and
Might-work-some-of-the-time-prototype that is much more up to date.

[drewbe121212]

Hey,
Look what I found:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040227042953/forums.digitalpoint.com/index.php

:P so cute lmao

[Grand]

Hey,
Look what I found:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040227042953/forums.digitalpoint.com/index.php

:P so cute lmao

Haha, that's great.

[xharrisonx]

LOL, http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/www.google.com/

[Gravereaper]

Unlike yahoo i don't see much difference in then and now google's homepage. It pretty much have the same feeling, its still using 90s kind of logo.

[Angelus]

LOL, http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/www.google.com/

OMG :) I didn't have a computer in 98' :)
Is this image for real?

p.l.u.r.

[Rezo]

OMG :) I didn't have a computer in 98' :)
Is this image for real?

p.l.u.r.

Yes. I got computer in 99, but then I didn't need to search anything :p Anyway, I am sure it looked like that

[MediaHustler]

*SIGH* The memories. 1996 the good ole days. When there was rarely any little kids, no spam, and no flaming.

[010081]

i just opened my email a/c on 2002,till that date i didn't know what is yahoo and what is hotmail.

[j0ned]

*SIGH* The memories. 1996 the good ole days. When there was rarely any little kids, no spam, and no flaming.


:) wasn't on the BBS's :)

Fortunatly IRC is still around - it's my fortress of solitude.

[Solicitors Mortgages]

Hey all,

It's how Yahoo! main web page looked at the very beggining in 1996.



Yahoo was better then, bring back the old days.

[Blanket]

looks a bit like craigslist.

[ArcticPro]

looks a bit like craigslist.
Craiglist is newer. ;)

[sasieboy]

Thats what you call prehistoric age of the internet

[Jenyfari]

I used to use Yahoo back in 1995. Wasn't any white backgrounds then - just a nice grey background.

[Static]

I remember Yahoo! back then. :) Better than now in my opinion...

[Coupons]

Those Google's green tables... yuck...

and DigitalPoint grew pretty fast :)

[goldfin]

i just opened my email a/c on 2002,till that date i didn't know what is yahoo and what is hotmail.

I didn't know what was yahoo for at that time. I also got my id in 2002:)

[kellyin]

wow i wz just unaware about this stuff.. Thanks dear

[Didoz]

How about MSN in 1996 http://web.archive.org/web/19961022175327/http://msn.com/
and Microsoft in 1996 http://web.archive.org/web/19961020014044/http://www.microsoft.com/

wooah!

[aaron_nimocks]

Googles press release back in 99.

http://web.archive.org/web/19991128214815/www.google.com/pressrel/pressrelease4.html

Some key points.

#
Sophisticated Text-Matching: Unlike conventional search engines, Google is hypertext-based. It analyzes all the content on each web page and factors in fonts, subdivisions, and the precise positions of all terms on the page. Google also factors in the content of neighboring web pages. All of this data enables Google to return results that are more relevant to user queries.
#

Patent-Pending PageRank Technology: Google's PageRankTM technology performs an objective measurement of the importance of web pages that is calculated by solving an equation of 500 million variables and more than 2 billion terms. Google does not determine results by counting links. Instead, Google's PageRank uses the vast link structure of the web as an organizational tool. In essence, Google interprets a link from Page A to Page B as a vote by Page A for Page B. Google assesses a page's importance by the votes it receives. It also analyzes the page that cast the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Important, high-quality pages receive a higher PageRank and are ordered higher in the results. Google is objective and fully automated and does not use human editors to judge a web page's importance.

[DidierE]

Well the internet was created I believe in 1992, that was advanced for a 1996 website...trust me. Back then it was more like WOW not yuck.

Oh no, the internet does exist much longer than that. I believe it was invented in the 50's or 60's :D
If i remember correctly it was the French that started out with such a network.

Didier

[RossCheal]

woow they have moved on so much now

[zibzer]

search engines in 1996! psshhh i never had to use those (well, i suppose sometimes i did)

i remember buying a book that had all the top websites in it for every category. It was kind of like dmoz but in a book form. If i wanted to research , say, the latest technology things. I would look up the technology section and it would show the websites with a little rating next to them. It was great.

oh and the crappy graphics and style of these webpages were designed to run on 14.4k modems .. 28.8k modems didnt come out until the mid 1990s. while 56k modems came out in the later 1990s. And it wasnt like I could go to wal-mart and buy a 56k modem for 15 bucks. Those things were expensive. I cant remember how much my dad payed for ours when we got it (when they were relatively new technology) but it was quite exciting to be able to see the net in 56k :)

[CedarCity]

I thought Al Gore invented the internet?

[Dglassman26]

Hey all,


Today I saw this : http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/.

It's how Yahoo! main web page looked at the very beggining in 1996. Just thought it would be interesting to know for yahoo geeks :)

Regards,
Rezo

haha, that's just horrible looking. Tell me Yahoo! wasn't the #1 site back then with this look?? That would just be wrong.

[rb3m]

Gather around the old man, kids. Back in those days when dinosaurs roamed the earth, there were no search engines, we had directories and yahoo and altavista were the kings of the jungle, and if you had a 28k modem you were seen as a god. The World Wide Web actually started around 1991, 92; but didn't make it big until around 1994.

The internet is older, going back to around the 1960s when the US Department of Defense decided they needed a network that could withstand a nuclear attack. In the dark days before WWW there were gopher, archie and veronica, usenet, and the still well known ftp and email. But all the good action happened outside it, in BBSs or networks like Compuserve, GEnie or Q-Link if you had a C-64.

[jamesplato]

thanks for the memories....

here's a wacky one too... cbs.com circa 1996 lol

http://web.archive.org/web/19961220012826/http://www.cbs.com/

[oseymour]

I started using the internet in 1998...that Yahoo page was hot stuff back then...I remember when I first started using it. I also remember the first time I got a 56k modem. I felt I was on top of the world.

[thewebhostingdir]

I 1st created my email account on hotmail.com .... it was preety cool even in 1999....

http://web.archive.org/web/19990125090134/hotmail.com/

[anj109]

search engines in 1996! psshhh i never had to use those (well, i suppose sometimes i did)

i remember buying a book that had all the top websites in it for every category. It was kind of like dmoz but in a book form. If i wanted to research , say, the latest technology things. I would look up the technology section and it would show the websites with a little rating next to them. It was great.

oh and the crappy graphics and style of these webpages were designed to run on 14.4k modems .. 28.8k modems didnt come out until the mid 1990s. while 56k modems came out in the later 1990s. And it wasnt like I could go to wal-mart and buy a 56k modem for 15 bucks. Those things were expensive. I cant remember how much my dad payed for ours when we got it (when they were relatively new technology) but it was quite exciting to be able to see the net in 56k :)

I remember trying to get my sites listed in these books. Can't remember if I ever did or not. This was back when I was 14 or so.

[thewebhostingdir]

You dont' need to submit your site to archieve.org. They will automatically visit (if your link found in any of his archieve) your site and will index it.

If you specify disallow for archive.org in robots.txt they will exclude your website from archiving.

I remember trying to get my sites listed in these books. Can't remember if I ever did or not. This was back when I was 14 or so.

[olti]

Yahoo was only a directory at the begining.

[ghoti]

Today I saw this : http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/.

It's how Yahoo! main web page looked at the very beggining in 1996. Well, that wasn't quite the beginning. Back in 1994, it was hosted on a server at Stanford (http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/) and was already up to 1200 links (http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.infosystems.www.misc/browse_frm/thread/b6ad6b3e7a10ae56/d5b0bdd4672df37b?lnk=st&q=http%3A%2F%2Fakebono.stanford.edu%2Fyahoo%2Fall.html+&rnum=1#d5b0bdd4672df37b) (just imagine, ALL of the links back then could be listed on one page! hehe)

[William Martin]

heh, I remember that.
Back in the days when Yahoo and altavista were the king searches. Oh, and
their was this one search that used all the other search sites as searches can't remember the name.

Dogpile :D

[h4nh4n]

This thread reminds me how I am stupid when I browsing to the net for the 1st time... :p

[reapr]

Well the internet was created I believe in 1992, that was advanced for a 1996 website...trust me. Back then it was more like WOW not yuck.

I have to agree on this one. I was online from home in 93 with a shell account.

BTW I thought Al Gore invented the internet. :eek:

Actually I was crusing the so called internet from the university I attended back in 87 on a unix account anyone remember those days? I think it was the ol' arapnet ...

[calisonder]

Google was based on yahoos design.



google has copied yahoo's designs on several other things besieds there main page

[KniveZ]

I love webarchive lol it brings back soo many lost memories.

[Confident]

This script is cool, how do they do it?

[iBold]

This script is cool, how do they do it?

a spider and lots of storage space :)

[Dglassman26]

google has copied yahoo's designs on several other things besieds there main page

What else did google copy from yahoo? google answers?