Facebook continues to evolve (some might say “change” or “screw up”). It probably holds the record for redesigns among any website.<\/p>\n
Google surprisingly launched in 1998 and it didn’t take long for it to become a driving force in web technology. With slight exception and the addition of artful pieces incorporated into their logo, Google has not changed their look that much, although they dropped the exclamation point off their name.\u00a0Created by Stanford PhD students Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the interface was simple because the founders didn\u2019t know HTML and were looking for a quick design fix. It seems to have worked!<\/p>\n Did you know that Yahoo is an acronym for \u201cYet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle\u201d? As with Google, Yahoo was the brainchild of two other Stanford whiz kids, Jerry Yang and David Filo. The site launched in 1995 and was considered the first online navigational guide to the web. The original interface featured a simple search bar and hyperlinks to other websites, but soon became a sleek aggregator of personalized content. Eventually, it created its own content in all news areas.\u00a0Yahoo has recently gone through some bashing from the design community for their logo redesign<\/a>. Can’t win them all!<\/p>\n McDonald’s launched it’s first website in 1996. The DHTML gave the appearance that you were clicking an actual button with a click sound and everything! That was about the extent of the technology a thousand years ago.<\/p>\n Latecomer, Coke launched its website in 1998 with a simple landing page. The hand scrawled type was very popular in 1998, as House Industry fonts ruled graphic design.<\/p>\n The New York Times hit on something when they launched an online newspaper layout in 1996. The site has evolved to hold more content but they remain true to their 150+ year publishing history.<\/p>\n The leader of online ecommerce, was born in 1995 as an online bookstore. Named the site after the Amazon River, the site has grown with other categories and offerings and is one of the most intuitive interfaces around.<\/p>\n Blockbuster launched their website in 1996 and although graphic designers had just been invented, many just couldn’t figure out why HTML would do some of the buggy things it did upon great occasion. Perhaps the fad at the time was to have an “orphan” word, alone on its own line. Apparently copywriters hadn’t been discovered as of yet, judging by the headline.<\/p>\n Blockbuster has become a victim of online on demand movies, so their new site isn’t there anymore. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n Blogger is the number one blogging platform but back in 1996… well, would you get as excited about it as you would now?<\/p>\n With images of the capitol building and flags waving, the government finally let web designers work on the website.<\/p>\n If you fast forward from the Jurassic era of the ’90s to 2006 when\u00a0This logo design was the first concept of Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey . Inspired by Flickr and SMS shortcode (which always includes five characters) The first logo was a happy mix of the “3D candy look”. Although the interface design has changed at least six times in the last five years, that hasn’t hurt Twitter one bit.<\/p>\n The release of the final Twitter brand with attractive hyperlinks and highlighted text.<\/p>\n Oddly, this website is named the “worst website” in the world (try a search with those terms and see it come up at the top of the results) but gets an equal amount of praise for its naive approach to web design and online sales that makes it so successful.<\/p>\n![\"1whg.thefacebook\"](\"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1whg.thefacebook.jpg\")
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