There are web sites that are so popular and well known that they generate huge amounts of traffic from regular visitors and some are so familiar they look set to become commonly adopted phrases in the same way that hoover, kleenex, frisbee and xerox did. When was the last time you Facebook’d someone or Google’d something?

Some of these sites change often, taking advantages of development in technology, whilst others look pretty much the same (on the surface) as they did when they started out.These are great web sites and everyday names but what if we turn back the clock on ten of them? What did they look like back in…

Facebook: August 28, 2005
www.facebook.com

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20050828205250/http://facebook.com/

Google: January 17, 1999
www.google.com

http://web.archive.org/web/19990117032727/http://www.google.com/

BBC: November 11, 1999
www.bbc.com

http://web.archive.org/web/19991111031900/http://www.bbc.com/index.html

YouTube: April 28, 2005
www.youtube.com

http://web.archive.org/web/20050428014715/http://www.youtube.com/

IMDB: October 18, 2000
www.imdb.com

http://web.archive.org/web/20001018024101/http://www.imdb.com/

Apple: April 4, 1997
www.apple.com

http://web.archive.org/web/19970404064352/http://www.apple.com/

Wikipedia: March 31, 2001
www.wikipedia.com

http://web.archive.org/web/20010331173908/http://www.wikipedia.com/

Technorati: June 22, 2005
www.technorati.com

http://web.archive.org/web/20050622035717/http://www.technorati.com/

Amazon: December 12, 1998
www.amazon.com

http://web.archive.org/web/19981212012532/http://amazon.com/

Nokia: December 19, 1996
www.nokia.com

http://web.archive.org/web/19961219232809/http://www.nokia.com/

Images from Internet Archive Wayback Machine at http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

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