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What Facebook, Google+ and YouTube would have looked like in 1997
Ah the olden days.
- laserDinosaur 15y agoLink to a link - Direct source: http://1x-upon.com/ http://1x-upon.com/
- ivankirigin 15y agoWhat is this nonsense about google? The domain was registered in 97 and launche in 98 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google [edit: my mistake, google+]
- corin_ 15y agoIt says Google+ not Google. That said, the 1998 version of Google looked much, much better than their mocked up 1997 version of Google+.
- ivankirigin 15y agoYeah you're right. I'd be interested in seeing some designers at these companies build something using only the layout and styling tools supported by most browsers of the day.
- dasil003 15y agoMe too, but to be fair, cellspacing="0" was well understood by serious web designers at the time in contrast with these examples.
- thurn 15y agoThe real name policy was a defining feature of Facebook. A site that doesn't have that can hardly be called the same thing.
- seanwoods 15y agoSites like these always trigger an upswell of nostalgia for me. Looking at these old screenshots I can remember how hip I felt after installing Netscape Communicator and browsing various sites. Perl was the new frontier. The Internet still seemed like something you could wrap your head around in its entirety, if you tried.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoI like 1997 YouTube better.
- ramblerman 15y agoWhat's the point of this. Just see what they actually looked like http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular-websites-looked-when-they-launched.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular... It's not like the 'fake' ones are particularly funny or anything.
- tommi 15y agoThe point is to see how technology has progressed in 14 years. Your link is irrelevant as none of the sites in question were live in 1997.
- famblycat 15y agoI love the would-be prankster on the Facebook page, trying to sneak an alert("Delete C:/?") onto the page.
- codezero 15y agoYou know, there were actually good designers in the late 90s and HTML and CSS were reasonably mature.
- mixmastamyk 15y agoYeah, these styles seem to be targeting '94, not 97. I have fond memories of imdb around that time in the mosaic browser I think.
- rhizome 15y agoI'm pretty sure tables had border=0 even in 94.
- Tangaroa 15y agoSince others are handling the arguments over technical and stylistic aspects, I will comment on another problem with the Facebook dedesign: Pokemon was not yet popular in 1997. The anime scene was all about Ranma, Slayers, Evangelion, Techni Muyo, and whatever movie had aired on the Sci-Fi channel the past Saturday. Sailor Moon was running on TV and was very popular but we tried to forget about that. Of course, the user could be from Japan where Pokemon had been running for half a year, or they could have gotten a sub off Usenet, but Pokemon did not get popular in the English-speaking world until the dub was aired later in the decade.