HA I can't believe they tried to jack Yahoo's exclamation point ... now it's yahoo doing all the idea theft ...
I was first online somewhere around 1982 or 83, with my spiffy fast 300 baud modem. Too bad waybackmachine didn't archive Compuserve before Jan 16, 1999 http://web.archive.org/web/19990424095338/www.compuserve.com/gateway/default.asp Well, I guess it did on Dec 20, 1996, not sure what this was about. The first cyber squatter perhaps? http://web.archive.org/web/19961220045225/http://www.compuserve.com/ And back to the future AOL on Dec 20, 1996, notice "The Future" animated gif? Kinda funny... http://web.archive.org/web/19961220154856/http://www.aol.com/
LOL... Google copied Yahoo!'s ! (Exclamation mark)... Except for innovations in AdWords, have they ever done anything really new?
All together: http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/what-did-famous-web-sites-look-like-their-first-day-online
Looking back on some sites just makes me smile. If you saw sites like some of them now you would say they are never going to make it.