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Old Websites Sure Are Funny

By Mark Wilson on January 27, 2008 at 3:59 PM

apple1997.jpgDigging through websites cached from the 90s is akin to seeing a celebrity’s high school yearbook pictures—during the early, awkward years of the web, brave companies made a stab at winning consumer hearts through 15″ CRTs and 14.4k dial up modems. Inspired by this MSU page, we decided to take a gander through the Internet Archive’s Wayback machine (a service that started saving pages in 1996). Needless to say, we found some funny stuff.

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My personal favourite might be the LEGO site, but really, there are no winners on this list. What do you think? Oh, and special (non-existent) prize to anyone who digs through the Wayback archives and finds funny stuff for the comments. [wayback] Photos by Eric Sheline

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