Apple's Website

[Lang Bang]

I found out that Apple.com was one of the oldest domains on the internet, so I thought to check it out on Archive.org. Even though the domain is much older, the way-back machine only goes back as far as 1996.

The 1996 website isn't well preserved, the the 1997 looks exactly the same with more images.
web.archive.org/web/19970404064352/http://www.apple.com/
Even though it looks like hell, it's pretty darn good for 1997.

Then I looked at 1998
web.archive.org/web/19980509035420/http://www.apple.com/
Also pretty good for the time, then I notice the Mac Pro.

That thing looks ridiculous.

1999, The iBook:
web.archive.org/web/20000229124520/a2040.g.akamaitech.net/7/2040/51/f8bdc5b8a81406/apple.akamai.com/images/indexphoto.jpg

2000, The website gets the signature nav that Apple held for so long.
web.archive.org/web/20000226101337/http://apple.com/
Have you notice, 500MHz now available! Wow, that's blazing! Also, introducing iTools! not iLife, but iTools!

2001, iMac! With FLOWERS!:
web.archive.org/web/20010302060048/www.apple.com/
Also, there is a download link for iTunes 1.1

2002, the new iMac with the large base:
web.archive.org/web/20020202220545/http://www.apple.com/index.html
iPhoto is also now up for a free download. Also, the website is really starting to look more modern.

2003, iTools, begone, iLife bitches:
web.archive.org/web/20030207151333/www.apple.com/

2005, The tsunami news was big at the time, remember?:
web.archive.org/web/20050101084713/http://www.apple.com/

For there, we would remember how the Apple website went on.

[Cunt Wrap Supreme]

If hell looks like that I wouldn't mind

[Tex-Mex Alex A. Dex]

"What's a machine this fast doing at home? The Power Macintosh 6500 runs at blistering speeds of up to 300MHz."

[Hauskaz]

lmfao I noticed that too. I like the Canon XL1 by the PowerBook G3 in the 2000 site.

I always liked the iMac G4. It reminds me of a desk lamp.

[solocityElectricCyan]

I thought you didn't like round things.

[Hauskaz]

They managed to do round right.

My PowerMac G4 looks retarded though.

[elbow unit]

sooooo fucking pretty the powermacs are man......near impossible to get one unless you hunt

[Hauskaz]

I always thought the PowerMacs were pretty dumb looking, save for the G5. That thing is a radiator (quite literally; the cooling system is based off automotive liquid cooling).

[elbow unit]

Well apple does like to "think different" don't they?

rofl looking at the sites, like they seem to regress into simpilcity. the first site is WAY more complicated than the new sites that literally could have been made by a 9th grader