Mind-blowing internet time machine reveals how awful Facebook, Google and more used to look – New York Post

Internet users are taking a trip down memory lane seeing what their favorite websites looked like years ago.

TheWayback Machineallows people to step back as far as the 90s, glimpsing at the basic and awful designs once graced by the likes of Facebook, Google, Amazon and so many more.

With 654 billion pages saved, nostalgic users can enter the name of just about any web address and see whether its available.

A calendar view will allow you to virtually turn back time, clicking through some the early days of some sites.

Here are some of the best to look at:

Mark Zuckerberg wasnt first to own the facebook.com address.

A company in the US owned it before.

It was only when the social network rebranded from TheFacebook to simply Facebook, that they reached a deal to buy the web address we know today.

Anyone who was a teen around 2007 will remember this basic look.

Googles main search engine hasnt changed a great deal from its early days.

Of course, the logo has been revamped several times since being founded in 1998.

And it is so much more than a search engine now.

Most people dont even bother visiting the main google.com or google.co.uk address now, they just perform searches at the top of their web browser.

Amazon looks completely different in the early noughties.

Were sure the prices were a lot different then compared to now as well

The worlds most popular video-sharing website was founded in 2005.

Realizing its potential, Google snapped it up a year later.

Twitter looked a lot more basic in the noughties too.

It was created in 2006 and didnt have anywhere near as many features as it does today.

Not least of all, tweets were limited to 140 characters until 2017.

Before the iPhone even existed, this is what you would have found on apple.com in 2000.

Oddly, the tech giant has stuck with the top menu bar look, though it has evolved drastically.

Before Netflix even existed in the UK, and before streaming was a thing, Netflix did postal movie and TV rentals.

It still provides this service in the US, but for the most part, the firm is known the world over for being a streaming platform today.

eBay made waves when it launched in the 90s, allowing people to buy and sell their old stuff.

The site was a lot more simple back then.

Hotmail is still going strong today but didnt have a great deal to it in the early days.

Though its still owned by Microsoft, Hotmail came under the MSN banner back then.

In other news, thenaughtiest emoji combinationshave been revealed.

Tinder has revived the classicblind date experiencewith a virtual twist.

And TikTok has announcednew rules, banning users who deadname or misgender others.

This story originally appeared on The Sun and has been reproduced here with permission.

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Mind-blowing internet time machine reveals how awful Facebook, Google and more used to look - New York Post