How 20 Famous Brands Websites Looked in the Past?

You are probably familiar with many of the big brands that exist today, such as Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and others. You probably use many of these influential brands every day through their websites or, more likely, their apps through your phones.

There is a massive increase in smartphone users worldwide when comparing statistics from recent years. Statista has compiled a statistic with the number of smartphone users worldwide from 2016 to 2021, and the number of smartphone users worldwide today surpasses three billion in 2020.

I guess you usually visit social media channels like Facebook, Amazon, WordPress, and more famous brands quite often! I do! You probably know their websites, and their layout looks like! If something changes, you probably notice it immediately, right?

But what did their websites look like when they started many years ago when no smartphones or tablets were available!

In today’s article, we take a stroll down the memory lane and take a look at how 20 famous worldwide brands websites look in the past!

How did 20 Famous Brands Websites look in the Past?

WordPress

WordPress – Screenshot – Jun 18, 2003

Google

Google – Screenshot – Dec 02, 1998

Microsoft

Microsoft – Screenshot – Dec 05, 1998

IBM

IBM – Screenshot – Apr 16, 1997

Apple

Apple – Screenshot – Oct 12, 1999

Adobe

Adobe – Screenshot – Oct 22, 1996

Amazon

Amazon – Screenshot – Oct 13, 1999

eBay

eBay – Screenshot – Sep 14, 1999

HP

HP – Screenshot – Dec 20, 1996

Facebook

Facebook – Screenshot – Aug 07, 2015

PayPal

PayPal – Screenshot – Nov 09, 2000

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola – Screenshot – Oct 13, 1999

Pepsi

Pepsi – Screenshot – Nov 1996

McDonald’s

McDonald’s – Screenshot – Jan 13, 1997

Disney

Disney – Screenshot – June 23, 1997

BMW

BMW – Screenshot – Oct 30, 1996

IKEA

IKEA – Screenshot – Feb 25, 1999

Colgate

Colgate – Screenshot – Nov 01, 1996

FedEx

FedEx – Screenshot – Dec 19 1996

Wrapping Up

Times are changing, and so is website design. As you can see in the pictures, these famous brands’ websites looked quite different twenty years ago. Click on the links below the respective image to see how these websites look today. Big difference, right?

To take screenshots of all famous brands websites web design from the past, we have used the tool Internet Archive – Wayback Machine. With this great tool, you can explore more than 431 billion web pages from the beginning of the Internet.