The Evolution Of Website Design
February 9th, 2010In the internet’s relatively short life it has come a long way. From it’s conception in 1973 by Vinton Cerf to the adoption of multinational companies to social networking sites, now anyone can have their own space on the internet. This post looks back at how over the last decade some well known companies have changed the design of their website.
Most large companies began their journey on the internet in the late 1990’s but technology of that time was limited and sites would sometimes, at best, have an array of static pages which would have to be manually updated. Images were sparsely used as internet speeds were not fast enough. In the days that it would take forever to download any sort of multimedia pages were limited in design. We’ve come a long way since then. It’s fun to look back over the old designs of websites that have evolved over the years to sites that are now richly interactive. What will the future hold for web design?
Apple
2000
2003
2007
2010
BBC
2002
2004
2007
2010
2000
2005
2010
McDonalds
2001
2005
2010
Microsoft
2001
2003
2007
2010
Myspace
2003
2007
2010
March 8th, 2010 at 2:05 am
Hmm, Google barely changed, only links and such moved. I don’t think it should’ve been included here.