Google's homepage, every month, since its launch

Ruben Bolling 7:22 am Tue Sep 10, 2024

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Watching this animation of Google's homepage as it has looked every month since its launch in 1998 is a good, quick visualization of the evolution of web design toward simplicity.

If it ain't broke…

A Google homepage for every month since its launch.

Screenshots courtesy of the @internetarchive's @waybackmachine which helps preserve the internet. pic.twitter.com/BTFosJS9Zl
— Carl Hendy (@carlhendy) August 30, 2024

The Version Museum offers a visual history of the Google search page. It is not animated but annotated and includes a reference to a 1996 website called BackRub, a precursor to Google—a web crawler that "checked back-links to determine a site's credibility."

h/t Philip Bump

Previously:
• Google celebrates Star Trek's 46th anniversary with an interactive doodle!

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