By the end of 1996, there were more than 250,000 websites, with some of the early pioneers of the Internet including Yahoo (1994) and Amazon (1995). In the period before 1996, only a small fraction of the websites remain known to this day, because at that time there was no institution or service to systematically archive the websites.
The turning point came only in 1996, when the largest digital library on the Internet was founded, which was designed, among other things, to preserve the content and visual appearance of websites through the service - Wayback Machine.
Today, the Internet Archive preserves the visual form of over 327 billion websites. This service, without a doubt, is of great help to anyone who wants to look at the Internet as it used to be. (I am happy to note that some of my blogs have also been archived, even though they are no longer online.)
The Internet Archive is not a museum containing organized and neat displays that allow visitors to get a comprehensive picture of past website design using selected examples. Therefore, the Website Design Museum aims to follow past design trends and allow the general public to get a complete picture of past website design with selected displays, while at the same time using selected websites to highlight the development of websites from the distant past to the present.
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