Everyone must start from somewhere, even the likes of Amazon and McDonald's.
Unfortunately, most of the resulting efforts were pretty terrible. There was no winning model to follow, so designers were left stabbing in the dark.
We used a combination of images from Essayroo and the Wayback Machine, which archives old websites, to dig up some of the most basic sites brands like Coca-Cola and Booking.com had when they first launched.
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Scroll down to laugh at their primitiveness, ordered by launch date.
An was written by Will Heilpern.
Amazon: 1995
Amazon: Now
McDonalds: 1996
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McDonald's: Now
Burger King: 1996
Burger King: Now
Pepsi: 1996
Pepsi: Now
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Domino's Pizza: 1996
Domino's Pizza: Now
The New York Times: 1996
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The New York Times: Now
Yahoo: 1997
Yahoo: Now
Mercedes-Benz: 1997
Mercedes-Benz: Now
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Ferrari: 1997
Ferrari: Now
J.P. Morgan: 1997
J.P. Morgan: Now
Google: 1998
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Google: Now
Apple: 1998
Apple: Now
Coca-Cola: 1998
Coca-Cola: Now
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Ebay: 1999
PayPal: 2000
PayPal: Now
IMDB: 2000
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Wikipedia: 2002
Wikipedia: Now
Booking.com: 2004
Booking.com: Now
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Facebook: 2005
Facebook: Now
Twitter: 2005
Twitter: Now
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