How did the famous sites at the beginning of its activity

• How did the famous sites in the beginning of the activity

History of the Internet, or as it is called, the World Wide Web begins with the 60-ies of the last century, when the first computer was developed by the ARPANET. Domain Name System was created in 1984, and the concept of the World Wide Web or WWW was born at CERN in 1989 and offered her a scientist from the UK, Tim Berners-Lee developed the HTML language and URL identifiers for two years. The World Wide Web has become available on the Internet since 1991 and since then its popularity is growing constantly. At the beginning of the activity of today's popular sites looked completely different. We want to show you what they are now and then.

It looked like in 2004. Facebook. At the beginning of the activity site called "Thefacebook". Of course, if the developers had fewer opportunities, and resources. While Zuckerberg did not find serious investors, it is necessary to use cheap web hosting, and do everything yourself, because the money to hire experienced web developers simply did not exist. Pay attention to a picture of Al Pacino in the upper left corner.

Facebook today. Of course, these days there were absolutely new opportunities for creators of web sites. The main colors of Facebook have survived, as well as a simple design, no frills.

LEGO Site in 1996. Blocks of one of the most recognized designers of the world have not changed in decades, but the site itself has undergone significant changes. It all started with a gray page with nice figures, but now ...

LEGO The site looks like this. Now the company offers more than just blocks constructor, and whole sets for creating fabulous and game characters.

Sony Site in 1998. Even the technology giant in the 90's had to put up with restrictions. It looked like the site of the largest electronics manufacturer. Neither color grams, or content does not cause delight.

And looks SONY website today. company's priorities clearly moved in the entertainment sector, and video games, which have become an important source of income.

Wikipedia.org - so it looked Wikipedia in 2001. One of the most visited sites in the world built its popularity over the years. At the beginning of the activity site visitors saw a page with only text information, and that it placed on the 6000 articles. How many of them now have a Wikipedia? Read more.

Depending on the language, the free encyclopedia consists of several hundreds of thousands of articles to nearly 5 million (more than the English language in all). The Russian version of Wikipedia contains 1,262,174 articles.

Amazon - the giant Internet sales - looked like at the beginning of its activities, in 1995, that is. Modestly.

The current version of Amazon.com site looks much more fun and functionality.

Page of Google's search engine in 1998 - a year of its debut. What's interesting is the absence of color and the logical end of the Google home page due to the fact that its founders did not know HTML. Like this. And now it is the second company in the world by market capitalization, amounting 468 billion dollars.

Most of the year Google.com looks that way.

Microsoft page Aesthetics these days has become much nicer, and the site - more understandable for users.

It looked like Twitter in 2006, the debut year. And should he be called twttr, and be green, but then thought better of its founder.

Twitter today.

Yahoo in 1994.

Despite the changes, the site looks simple enough, but the color purple became the hallmark Yahoo worldwide.

Company site Coca-Cola in 1996.

Now the site of Coca-Cola looks very modern, but the classics (original design bottles) are not forgotten.