The Original Designs Of Top Websites

 
 
 








The top websites that have become permanent bookmarks on most user’s browsers didn’t always look like they do now. Have you ever wondered what Twitter looked like when it first came out? How about Facebook? Well, we found some screen grabs of the original sites thanks to Wayback Machine – a site that provides screenshots of any website imaginable from its inception until now. Now, if only we could bring ourselves to chronicle the many faces of Facebook design – but let’s face it, all the different designs would crash our server in photo-overload mode. Oh well.

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  1. Joe Carling (@CarlingJ) wrote:
    February 15, 2012 at 7:05 am

    RT @ThatsLikeWHOA: THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF GOOGLE, TWITTER, YOUTUBE, AMAZON, FACEBOOK AND MORE TOP SITES http://t.co/OqQhdQsZ #webdesign

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  2. Andraž Rihtar (@Svizy) wrote:
    February 15, 2012 at 9:16 am

    RT @DashBurst: THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF TOP WEBSITES http://t.co/ikJBuLcn

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  3. Tareq Gohery (@TareqG) wrote:
    February 15, 2012 at 9:34 am

    Original Designs Of Top Websites – http://t.co/HdjDmvDW RT @DashBurst

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  4. Amy Do (@amydostafford) wrote:
    February 15, 2012 at 11:05 am

    Yikes! I guess you have to start somewhere. RT @dashburst: THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF TOP WEBSITES http://t.co/vozpr6Re

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  5. Matthew Hurst (@MattHurst) wrote:
    February 15, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    #Nostalgia The original designs of popular websites http://t.co/BJRmlAMQ

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  6. Robin Johnson (@Go4RobinJohnson) wrote:
    February 15, 2012 at 12:34 pm

    THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF TOP WEBSITES via @ThatsLikeWHOA http://t.co/pxM6HVNN via @sharethis

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  7. SM Web Design (@SneakyMedia) wrote:
    February 15, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    RT @ThatsLikeWHOA: THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF GOOGLE, TWITTER, YOUTUBE, AMAZON, FACEBOOK AND MORE TOP SITES http://t.co/OqQhdQsZ #webdesign

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  8. Mathieu St-Onge (@mathieu_stonge) wrote:
    February 15, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    To see what some of the biggest web sites looked like in their original incarnations, it’s here http://t.co/vwBd9U9V via @DashBurst

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  9. Farzana Bahar (@bahar_farzana) (@bahar_farzana) wrote:
    February 15, 2012 at 12:57 pm

    RT @ThatsLikeWHOA: THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF GOOGLE, TWITTER, YOUTUBE, AMAZON, FACEBOOK AND MORE TOP SITES http://t.co/OqQhdQsZ #webdesign

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  10. Farzana Bahar (@bahar_farzana) (@bahar_farzana) wrote:
    February 15, 2012 at 12:57 pm

    THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF GOOGLE, TWITTER, YOUTUBE, AMAZON, FACEBOOK AND MORE TOP SITES http://t.co/QEvXz4Ly

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  11. Zync (@ZyncAgency) wrote:
    February 15, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    See the first iteration of some of the most popular sites around. We’ve come a long way! http://t.co/lTNTssdl #webdesign

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  12. Katherine Patton (@officeofnature) wrote:
    February 15, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    Pretty funny! RT @ZyncAgency See the first iteration of some of the most popular sites around. http://t.co/hN7Jxsvm #webdesign

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  14. Liam Roberts (@IAMLIAMROBERTS) (@IAMLIAMROBERTS) (@IAMLIAMROBERTS) wrote:
    February 15, 2012 at 4:17 pm

    Some big names such as Amazon when they were in their early days! How things move quickly! http://t.co/2dgInwUp

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  15. Allen Lawson (@AllenJlawson) wrote:
    February 15, 2012 at 7:02 pm

    RT @ThatsLikeWHOA: THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF GOOGLE, TWITTER, YOUTUBE, AMAZON, FACEBOOK AND MORE TOP SITES http://t.co/OqQhdQsZ #webdesign

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  16. Twist or Stick (@twist_or_stick) wrote:
    February 16, 2012 at 4:53 am

    The original designs of TOP #websites! @amazon have come a long way! via @ThatsLikeWHOA http://t.co/E7pSuAMM

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  17. Allison Lautz (@AllisonLautz) wrote:
    February 16, 2012 at 9:55 am

    The Original Designs of Top Websites — Google, Amazon, Facebook, Youtube, etc. via @thatslikewhoa http://t.co/KjUDVATN

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  18. B.Kienapple (@B_Kienapple) wrote:
    February 16, 2012 at 10:46 am

    THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF TOP WEBSITES via @ThatsLikeWHOA http://t.co/I0Y0rbNG

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  19. Mikel Melcon (@mikelmelcon) wrote:
    February 16, 2012 at 6:11 pm

    RT @mikelonate: logos de webs en sus orígenes http://t.co/AqYUSxaZ

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  20. Brett Gaynor (@brettgaynor) wrote:
    February 16, 2012 at 6:50 pm

    How very 1990′s – THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF TOP WEBSITES http://t.co/royqWt7w

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  21. Kara Apel (@Kara_Apel) wrote:
    February 16, 2012 at 7:52 pm

    This is crazy! Look at how Twitter started! // The Original Designs of Top Websites http://t.co/TISejGOz

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  22. Neil Sanderson (@NeilSanderson) wrote:
    February 16, 2012 at 8:31 pm

    HISTORICAL SCREENSHOTS: Original designs of top websites. To me, http://t.co/LdC1QuXK looks the least dated. http://t.co/XZBgBUmi

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    August 21, 2012 at 4:17 pm

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    April 18, 2013 at 9:11 pm

    [...] while ago, Things Like Whoa showed the world the original designs of today’s top websites. Today, we break them down [...]

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