Yahoo in 1996!

looks a bit like craigslist.

 

Craiglist is newer.

 

Thats what you call prehistoric age of the internet

 

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

 

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

 

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

and DigitalPoint grew pretty fast

 

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

 

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

 

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!

 

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

Didier

 

woow they have moved on so much now

 

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 thought Al Gore invented the internet?

 

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

 

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.

 

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/

 

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.

 

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.

 

Yahoo was only a directory at the begining.