haha.. very nice... thanks for share.. I like yahoo http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/
And what about Ebay: http://web.archive.org/web/19970614001443/http://www.ebay.com/ And Apple: http://web.archive.org/web/19961022105458/http://www.apple.com/
That was really old school design but at that time it seem really awesome to surf at internet. People who have an email at that time is just like you have one ferrari
In 1998 Google was just another search company..it even came bundled with copernic..and it had to compete with meta search engines like webcrawlers etc... The most important thing that differentiated between google and others were its Speed...even at dial up...it was super fast..ofcourse the results were good..but the speed was awesome.
It is cute to see google in 1998 and and digitalpoint in 2004 with only 2 registered user using phpBB 2.0.0.6. Both are giant right now.