What our favorite sites looked like before they became mainstream.

Internet users with experience will probably remember that the fashionable design and user-friendly interface did not appear on the INTERNET immediately. Many sites at the beginning of their journey were far from perfect. Do you remember how far away?

1. VKontakte, 2006 and 2011

November 2006 VKontakte is not quite a social network yet, but "a closed directory of students and graduates of elite universities." Of course, the elite, like everything in the zero.

Five years later, the design of the social network has not changed much. This is how the page of the creator of VKontakte Pavel Durov looked in June 2011: philosophical status, libertarian political views and more than two million subscribers. Sincerely.

2. YouTube, 2006

YouTube launched in 2005. The site’s design was gradually changing, but a year after the launch, it was still far from modern. If it were not for the recognizable logo, it would be difficult to understand that this is the oldest version of the most popular video hosting in the world. No billions of views. Although phone reviews are already there.

3. Google, 1998

This is what the Google homepage looked like before the company turned into a giant corporation and the all-seeing Big Brother. Since December 1998, the search engine has retained only the logo colors and the search function I'm feeling lucky (I’m lucky!). Google is really lucky.

4. Facebook, 2005

Mark Zuckerberg's social network for students and graduates of American colleges appeared two years before VKontakte Pavel Durov. What a coincidence. In 2005, the Facebook homepage looked like this.

5. Instagram, 2011

Classic Instagram: only iPhones, 3G internet and framed photos.

6. Twitter, 2006

Thus began the era.

7. Wikipedia, 2002

The Russian version of Wikipedia appeared in 2002. Her main page looked very nice. It is written in small print: “Hello, dear authors and readers of our new online encyclopedia! Let's work together on her Russian version! It depends on us what the new encyclopedia in Russian will be like. ”

8. Yandex, 1998

Back in 1998, Yandex looked like this. For maps, navigator, voice assistant and food delivery for many, many more years.

9. Pornhub, 2007

One of the most popular adult video sites in the world quickly found its face. But one of the first versions of the main page was catastrophically far from today's version.

10. AliExpress, 2009

It looked like ten years ago, the main store of goods from China. Very solid.

11. Netflix, 1999, 2005

Netflix started with the rental and sale of DVDs. They offered this service on the main page of their site. So he looked in 1999.

And so in 2005.

12. Sberbank, 1999

No mobile apps, of course. Twenty years ago, on the website of Sberbank, you could read the annual report, history and news of the bank, and also find out what to do with “Problem 2000”.

13. ASOS, 2003

In 2003, the British online clothing and cosmetics store relied on the “look like a celebrity” advertising message. On the site of the times when the ghost of feminism has not yet roamed the world, the item with the inscription “So Many Men, So Little Time” (“So many men, so little time”) is especially pleased.