Amazon's original home page [PIC]
 

hehehe old school

Oh and ebay too

http://www.bitterwallet.com/wp-conte...awhomepage.gif

via http://www.bitterwallet.com/the-anci...134/awhomepage

YOU MUST LOVE INTERNET STARTUPS, make you think, what changed, nothing just design and better scripts

The only thing that hasn't changed is TheHun.

Well, not much anyway...

Heheheh.

what year where those?

That's cool :thumbsup

If its not broke then dont try to fix it :thumbsup

One of the worst pieces of advice one can follow in business.

(or at least wrongly followed based upon people's definition of "broken")

lol if only we could go back to those times

This must be very old .

maybe I should have said "if it works, dont go and change it" :)

The Wayback Machine is awesome.

If it works, carefully test one small change at a time to see what makes it work even better.

yeah wayback machine is pretty cool
here are some more screenshots from the last 7 years
http://www.domaintools.com/research/...ry/amazon.com/

http://sushibandit.com/wp-content/up...alienprobe.gif
http://www.allmystery.de/i/taiIbYs_a...mb-512x512.gif
http://cdn100bne.bluehatnetwork.com/...1001889396.gif

Look at Google's original homepage, vs today.

please tell me you're not implying that Google didn't change 99.99% of what it was at first :(

Nothing has changed about the HUN? How about the signups they used to send... LOL

2000 = 16 signups from one gallery

2011 = 1 signup from 8 galleries

Lols

The Hun example always makes me chuckle, every time the "change/no change" discussion arises someone mentions The Hun as a good example of why NOT to change. The part they're missing is The Hun lost around 70/75% of its traffic, but hey, who cares about that? Everybody here likes to lose 1,000,000+ unique visitors per day! :(

Guess that most successful companies invest in developing new ideas and improving their sites and UI/UX because they're dumb and they don't know how to spend their money :(

Want to really see something? This is what craigslist used to look like.

http://i.ehow.com/images/a04/re/ul/m...st-800x800.jpg

wah wah..

You actually *are* this stupid aren't you? I mean, it's not an act?

haha @ 'Earth's Biggest Bookstore', I love the use of the word Earth as a sales tag!

Sometimes I miss good old times...

love the way back machine!

watched a french documentary on internet start ups not too long ago.
was Funny to see those site's homepage from 11 years ago. (most of the people featured in it sold their biz and made millions)

Shit, they came a long way!

It has changed...but it's not a giant explosion all over the web page like Yahoo. You have to look under the hood to get everything. Aesthetically, the page looks almost like it did back in the day.

Reguards,

Pierre

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