Microsoft recreates it's website from 1994

Stig · 07/08/14 - 22:08

For all those liking a bit of IT nostalgia:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/

There is a nice background article too:
http://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2014/08/07/throwback-thursday-microsoft-com-among-the-earliest-commercial-websites-has-been-on-the-web-for-20-years/

James2001 · 07/08/14 - 22:21

Looks better than Windows 8

TelevisionUser · 07/08/14 - 23:46

'kinell! Did the internet and websites really look that bad way back then?

LION8TIGER · 08/08/14 - 00:00

TelevisionUser wrote: »

'kinell! Did the internet and websites really look that bad way back then?

Yes but they probably looked great then

, I got my first PC in '99 and they looked much better.

mred2000 · 08/08/14 - 01:33

TelevisionUser wrote: »

'kinell! Did the internet and websites really look that bad way back then?

Awesome compared to what came before it, direct dial BBS etc...

bspace · 08/08/14 - 01:53

The first browser I can recall using with any regularity was Mosaic in 93

http://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/mosaic.png

seemed like heaven after news groups

evil c · 08/08/14 - 01:56

Thanks for the links, Stig. Interesting to see and the blog too.

cnbcwatcher · 09/08/14 - 00:20

Very interesting. It's amazing how much websites have changed in 20 years!

I didn't start using the net until 2000.

zx50 · 09/08/14 - 09:09

bspace wrote: »

The first browser I can recall using with any regularity was Mosaic in 93

http://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/mosaic.png

seemed like heaven after news groups

Not working for me.

zx50 · 09/08/14 - 09:14

I the dial-up connections back then would have struggled a bit with that image on Microsoft's first website back then. I think the connection would have been less than 56K when that site was up and running.

mac2708 · 09/08/14 - 10:20

zx50 wrote: »

Not working for me.

OK here.
Try this http://postimg.org/image/ob0ox1ar1/

zx50 · 09/08/14 - 10:36

mac2708 wrote: »

OK here.
Try this http://postimg.org/image/ob0ox1ar1/

Yeah, it's about what I would have expected from that time.

and101 · 09/08/14 - 16:46

zx50 wrote: »

I the dial-up connections back then would have struggled a bit with that image on Microsoft's first website back then. I think the connection would have been less than 56K when that site was up and running.

Probably 9600 or 14,400 modems back then. The 28.8K standard was only ratified in 1994 and 56K modems only appeared around 1997.

Lyricalis · 09/08/14 - 17:25

TelevisionUser wrote: »

'kinell! Did the internet and websites really look that bad way back then?

They've come a long way, though you can still find some ruddy awful ones that haven't been redesigned since the 90's.

D_Mcd4 · 09/08/14 - 20:18

Much better than Cefax!

Maxatoria · 09/08/14 - 22:14

look at a lot of american websites even now and you think that 1776 is the date that they've decided all taste has been left from

LostFool · 11/08/14 - 13:02

bspace wrote: »

The first browser I can recall using with any regularity was Mosaic in 93

http://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/mosaic.png

seemed like heaven after news groups

I remember a friend showing me Mosaic in around 1993 after he installed it on his PC (I also had a PC but didn't have a modem). My first reaction was "what's the point?". He still reminds me about that 20 years later.

reglip · 12/08/14 - 20:27

Go to archive.org and you can see what pretty much every website looked like

For example here is '94 although theres not much to see

https://web.archive.org/web/19961022175331/http://www.microsoft.com/

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