If you have not checked out the Wayback Machine you should. It can take you back to earlier days of the Internet. It’s The Internet Archive’s version of the Library of Congress. A giant cache of of web pages from the past. Man, web designers tastes have improved along with the functionality and usefulness. Here is a collection of some famous sites and since this is a music related blog some pertaining to music to give you a blast from the past. You can click on pics to embiggen them.
Dec. 1998
I am not sure did this site get out of beta and catch on?
Oct. 1996
Was still the search big boy I think it was the sun glasses.
May, 2000
The site that caused all that trouble. A memorable headline too!
Jan, 2001
The legal successor to Napster. Who knew then?
Mar. 1997
Propellerheads pre-Reason I still love Rebirth and ReCycle despite being a decade old. I am glad that yellow back drop went away.
Nov. 1996
Cool you can look up items in a catalog then type all the numbers in a text form and your order will arrive!
Not really faster than using the phone but they got better. If you explore the archive of the old site they did have a primative catalog but the search function was very basic. Need exact matches could not manage singular or purals probelm. Rember those days. Now you only have to spell realitive close to find what you want.
Oct. 1996
That typical early website look. Use what ever colors and stick a weak logo somewhere. The look of there site and DAW have improved greatly.
Nov. 1999
Their motto is drippy with irony toady.
Feb. 1997
I nice site for the day Digi has always been classy.
Feb. 2001
#46 is a snapshot of the Internet quirkiness. AYBBTU is still not dead just mutated weirder and it’s Birthday is kind of celebrated. Ms. Spears was probably as high this week as then. It still hot chicks, piracy and tragedies of the moment dominating search so maybe things haven’t changed that much they just look prettier.