Apple.com Revisited

[snkTab]

Today (http://www.apple.com)
January 2004 (http://web.archive.org/web/20040116144427/http://www.apple.com/)
February 2003 (http://web.archive.org/web/20030206063843/www.apple.com/)
January 2002 (http://web.archive.org/web/20011217200937/www.apple.com/)
January 2001 (http://web.archive.org/web/20010118205900/http://www.apple.com/)
March 2000 (http://web.archive.org/web/20000302180015/http://apple.com/index.html)
October 1999 (http://web.archive.org/web/19991005003250/http://www.apple.com/)
April 1998 - lol, best one (http://web.archive.org/web/19980429140407/http://www.apple.com/)
April 1997 (http://web.archive.org/web/19970404064352/http://www.apple.com/)

http://web.archive.org/web/19980429140407/http://www.apple.com/home/images/promos/think300mhz.gif

[liketom]

that is cool wonder if i can copy it and host it ? lol

[Diatribe]

Great find.
It's a weird site layout that they used 1997/98. And I wish they could say the toasting thing about Intel now... :rolleyes:

[snkTab]

yeah i was playing around with this http://www.archive.org/ Apparently the internet has an archive :)

I looked at my own website in 1999-2000. :eek: So ugly. :(

A lot of my old stuff was :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: . If I saw something like this elsewhere I might have said "man this kid is retarded"

[liketom]

Check this one out
hehe

http://web.archive.org/web/20000510011926/http://www.macrumors.com/

[kewpid]

They've more or less had the same site design for the past 5 years. :eek:

[mrjamin]

They've more or less had the same site design for the past 5 years. :eek:
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.

no wait, that's not right...

[m-dogg]

Those were cool to look at as a fairly recent Mac convert!

[Kwyjibo]

archive.org has been around for a while ....

its kind of embarassing to look back at the old copies f my website, the nagain, I haven't changed that much but it looks better these days.

[whocares]

Anyone know where I can find a quicktime of the 'toast' ad? It's a classic!

[Deefuzz]

that is a great find!

That 1998 one is great! It's good to see the site hasn't changed too much in the years past. That 1997 one is pretty different though!

[iJoe]

I wish there was an archive of every Apple front page, surely someone has kept pictures somewhere? I'd like to 'revisit' some of the more recent ones.

whocares, is this it: http://www.esm.psu.edu/faculty/gray/movies/graphics/movies/toasted.mov

[tech4all]

Great! I've always wondered what the older versions of Apple's site looked liked :)

[njmac]

From 1997:
World's Fastest Home Computer
What's a machine this fast doing at home? The Power Macintosh 6500 runs at blistering speeds of up to 300MHz.

so funny to see now. The site looks so similar but just gets more refined every year. Some older years just look clunky

[Daveway]

This thread is awesome! I love looking at how the web has evolved.

I think its time for Apple to redesign the sith though. I remember reading a survey that said it was voted worst on ease of navigation.

[Dr. Dastardly]

I think its time for Apple to redesign the sith though. I remember reading a survey that said it was voted worst on ease of navigation.
Are they serious?! I think Apples site is one of the best sites I have ever visited. The absolute worst website that I have ever had the displeasure of using is Microsofts. Its a pain in the @ss to navigate through and not intuitive at all. And god help you if you are looking for a specific OS patch.

*shudder*

[Daveway]

Are they serious?! I think Apples site is one of the best sites I have ever visited. The absolute worst website that I have ever had the displeasure of using is Microsofts. Its a pain in the @ss to navigate through and not intuitive at all. And god help you if you are looking for a specific OS patch.

*shudder*

This is true.

[Flying Llama]

:eek: :eek:
Old MacRumors! (http://web.archive.org/web/20000815062537/http://www.macrumors.com/)

[mcarvin]

I think its time for Apple to redesign the sith though. I remember reading a survey that said it was voted worst on ease of navigation.

The closest thing I remember to an Apple redesign was when Zeldman and Bowman were contracted by Apple back in '03 (http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0803a.shtml#au2703). Both Happy Cog and Stop Design are really top-notch web design houses, but they only say that they're helping make the HTML standards-compliant and forward-compatible.

I'm sure something visual will be done to coincide with Tiger. IIRC, doesn't Aqua get another tweaking. I believe I saw it in the screenies of Mail.app 2.0.

[maya]

This bring back memories. :)


Not a new thing though I knew of this some years back, I believe MacWorld mag had published this in they mag some years back. Nice to re-visit the past. :)

[Mechcozmo]

And god help you if you are looking for a specific OS patch.

*shudder*

What patch? There are 20 a day...

MS's site sucks. I like Apple's-- very easy to find what you want. And notice the colors at the top changed slightly from circa 10.1 times to 10.3 times?

[whocares]

I wish there was an archive of every Apple front page, surely someone has kept pictures somewhere? I'd like to 'revisit' some of the more recent ones.

whocares, is this it: http://www.esm.psu.edu/faculty/gray/movies/graphics/movies/toasted.mov

Yes but the link was slightly wrong:

New link. (http://www.esm.psu.edu/faculty/gray/graphics/movies/toasted.mov)

Cheers :)

[OutThere]

Thanks for introducing me to this web archive site, it's awesome to look back on past websites! :D It's wild how much sites have changed with the boom in broadband, and the massive increases in images everywhere. The web was a pretty bland place before people had fast enough connections to load image-rich pages. :D