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Friday, July 16, 2010

Websites We Visit: How They Look Like 10 Years Ago

Most of us probably got our Internet connection somewhere 10 years back. It was also around that time we seen the sudden boom on Internet, thanks to Marc Andreessen and Netscape Communicator. Now that we are almost at the end of 2008, we thought it’s pretty interesting to look back at how some of the trend setters and the most trafficked websites were like 10 years back.
Here are some of the top-tier brands of the tech industries and their websites have stayed on the Internet for more than a decade. Let’s take a look at how these websites look like 10 years ago, comparing with that it is now. Full list after jump.

Amazon

Clear-cut navigation is very important for any e-commerce site and we believe Amazon handles this pretty well. The site has not been changing over the pass decade in terms of the amount of content they put forward on the first page. The most obvious change over the pass ten years in Amazon is perhaps swapping the horizontal tab navigation to a left sidebar drop down and bringing their search box to the top.

Amazon 1998

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Amazon 2008

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TypoGraphy

Typography (Etymology: typos—type, graphos—written) is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), adjusting the spaces between groups of letters (tracking) and adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning). read more..

When Nature Calls, Nature Inspired Websites

The environment has seen some serious media attention in the past year or so, celebrities trying to save the environment, and super retail companies offering environmentally safe bags instead of plastic. The environment has had a great impact on us recently, and it’s not shy to the web.

When would you have ever thought that, you could feel so refreshed and peaceful while looking at a computer screen, surrounded by the mounds of papers on your desk. Web designers are using nature to inspire their web projects, this trend/theme seems to give the user pure joy and happiness.