Amaya Toman Do you still remember what websites looked like in the 1990s? Many of the sites we used to visit at the time do not exist. During the last decade of the last millennium, many design trends took place on the web. Do you remember what the selected websites looked like back then?
What we would laugh at at best these days was often considered a great and innovative trend in the 1990s. Progress in this direction is moving forward really fast and today it is very difficult to remember what our favorite websites looked like twenty years ago. Let's remember this time.
Nike
Although the website of the popular Nike brand was certainly staffed by experts in the 1998s, their image from XNUMX looks simple from today's perspective. A number of elements that you might have encountered on the Nike website in the nineties have unfortunately not survived, the tool WaybackMachine but it can give you at least an approximate idea of the web design of that time.
McDonald's
Visiting the websites of the fast food giant McDonald's must have been really fun for the target group in the 1990s, but from today's point of view, their design and operation look really funny. The website, in typical company colors, spared no effort in animations and "clickable" cartoon images.
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Coca-Cola
The Coca-Cola website was first launched in April 1995, so it was not archived by the Wayback Machine. But we can remember his form on site Coca Cola, you can watch the video here:
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Of course, Apple's website cannot be missing from the list of sites whose 1996s form we remember today. Its first archived form dates from October XNUMX and you will find a lot of text on it. Over time, we can see how Apple started betting more on simplicity and visual content.
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From Czech meadows and groves
A number of portals that ran on the Czech Internet in the nineties are still in operation today. Czechs visited news portals and discussion websites. Significant was - apart from 1992, when the Czech Republic first connected to the Internet, and 1995, when the Internet was liberalized - especially 1998, when sites such as iDnes.cz, Týden and many others were launched. The largest domestic search engine Seznam.cz was also present at the birth. Along with the fact that the price of an Internet connection decreased and its quality increased, the interest in buying Internet domains spread and the number of people with an Internet connection was estimated to be in the order of hundreds of thousands.
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In the 1990s, the Czech Republic was dominated by dial-up connections, which were mostly paid both for data transmission and monthly for the connection itself. Did you experience the internet nineties in the Czech Republic? Do you remember the first websites you visited, dial-up connections, Internet cafes, or events like writing an antitrust petition?
