{"id":22904,"date":"2020-09-22T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/?p=22904"},"modified":"2020-09-22T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T09:00:47","slug":"throwback-to-the-best-websites-of-the-90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/throwback-to-the-best-websites-of-the-90s\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback to the best websites of the 90s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been <a href=\"https:\/\/timeline.web.cern.ch\/worlds-first-browsereditor-website-and-server-go-live-cern\">30 years<\/a> since Tim Berners-Lee wrote the software for what would become the world wide web. His boss <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5549635\/tim-berners-lee-interview-web\/\">described<\/a> Berners-Lee\u2019s proposal as \u201cvague, but exciting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In thirty short years, the Internet has become a lot less vague. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/19058\/how-many-websites-are-there\/\">Statistica<\/a>, there were more than 1.7 billion websites by 2019.<\/p>\n<p>But, let\u2019s cast our mind back to that vague and exciting decade of the 1990s, when programmers were figuring out what they could do with web design.<\/p>\n<p>The very first websites were basically just pages of text with links to other pages of text.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22910 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-look-back-at-the-world-wide-web-1024x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can find this \u2018design\u2019 aped on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/History.html\">the official history page<\/a> of the website for W3, the organisation Berners-Lee went on to form. This page walks you through the timeline of innovation in the prehistory of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>The next big leap was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webdesignmuseum.org\/web-design-history\/mosaic-1-0-1993\">the invention of the web browser<\/a>. Two University of Illinois students, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, developed Mosaic. This was a web browser with an in-built graphical interface, which meant it allowed webpages to display images alongside text, instead of in a separate window. The other great thing about Mosaic was that it was given away for free and worked on both Apple and Windows computers.<\/p>\n<p>Cunning use (and abuse) of text and images helped web design come of age. Let\u2019s look at a few pioneers of the earliest days of the world wide web:<\/p>\n<h2><strong>World Wide Web Worm<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22911 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-look-back-at-the-world-wide-web-worm-1024x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before \u2018Googling\u2019 became a household term, users would search for information online with The World Wide Web Worm. The brainchild of Oliver McBryan of the University of Colorado, it crawled into existence in 1993. Sure it might have been slow, but it was the precursor to how people would go on to use the Internet.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>IMDb<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22907 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-look-back-at-IMDB-1024x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even in the early 90s, when computers were things you used at the office but probably didn\u2019t have at home, people understood that they were a really good resource for storing vast amounts of information and accessing it very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IMDb\">Internet Movie Database<\/a> was born. Ironically, it began life online, as a series of linked lists of actors put together, as a hobby, by film-fan and engineer, Col Needham. These lists were stored in, of all places, the computer science department of the University of Cardiff. It went online in 1994, became an incorporated business in 1996 and was snapped up by Jeff Bezos in 1998, for a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IMDb\">reputed $55 million<\/a>, who attached it to his little company, Amazon, which had recently gone public.<\/p>\n<p>Only after that, did the design of the IMDb website evolve.<\/p>\n<h2>Wired Magazine<\/h2>\n<p>By the mid-90s, <em>Wired<\/em> magazine had been at the bleeding edge of tech for a couple of years, so it\u2019s no surprise its creators were pioneers of web design, too. Their \u2018web zine\u2019 was called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/10\/wired-hotwired-anniversary\/\">HotWired.com<\/a> and it debuted at the end of 1994. In the fast-paced, ever-changing world of the Internet, the creators found that their webzine gave them the chance to respond to the news in a way that a monthly print magazine simply couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>It also gave them the chance to explore creatively with web design. They pioneered the idea of using a homepage (or \u2018Index\u2019) to navigate to different departments within the site. As simple as it may seem now, they also pioneered the use of icons and coloured background floods to add some vibrancy to the images and text. They were also the first people to sell banner advertising space. They had no CSS, no tables to hold elements in place. There was no template for any of this, they were making it up as they went along.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, Hollywood discovered the Internet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22905 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-look-back-at-Batman-Forever-website-1024x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Batman Forever<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thehistoryoftheweb.com\/batman-forever-important-web\/\">website for <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thehistoryoftheweb.com\/batman-forever-important-web\/\"><em>Batman Forever<\/em><\/a> took inspiration from the work being done by HotWired and pushed the limitations of web design to breaking point. The creators of this site were the first to use full screen backgrounds. They used animation. They pretty-much invented interactivity, by allowing people to download a video (remember when videos were the size of postage stamps?) and post comments on a message board.<\/p>\n<h2>MTV<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22914 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/At-look-back-at-MTV-website-1024x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By 1997, web design was getting ambitious, sometimes more ambitious than people\u2019s home computers could cope with.\u00a0 So, some websites offered you a branching home-page.<\/p>\n<p>MTV led the way with a website which offered you the simple, unfussy experience of HTML frames (which it refers to as \u2018decaff\u2019) or the glory of scrumptious \u2018Java\u2019, a version of the same site with sound and video clips and a much more dynamic design.\u00a0 This, of course, was a reference to the computer-programming language, Java, as well as to the eye-opening properties of a hot cup of a coffee.<\/p>\n<h2>The Matrix<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22908 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-look-back-at-the-matrix-website-1024x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1999, the worlds of cinema-going and computer programming crashed into each other as never before in the film The Matrix.<\/p>\n<p>The film was about the human race effectively living inside a life-size, three-dimensional computer-generated world. At the time, the limitations of dialup modems, computer memory and HTML, meant that the website which accompanied this mind-expanding film was a bit of a let-down, by comparison.\u00a0 But it was cutting-edge for the time.<\/p>\n<p>Like the MTV site before it, Warner Brothers\u2019 \u2018Whatisthmatrix\u2019 site offered two options: \u2018Regular\u2019 and \u2018Enhanced\u2019.\u00a0 In hindsight, they maybe missed an opportunity by not calling these options \u2018red pill\u2019 and \u2018blue pill\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to see what the future of the internet looked like, twenty one years ago, the original Whatisthematrix can still be accessed, via <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/19990427090419\/http:\/www.whatisthematrix.com\/\">the Wayback Machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Summing up<\/h2>\n<p>The Internet has come a long, long way since its inception. The progress made throughout the 90s alone is staggering.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve highlighted some of the best, but what was your favourite website from the 90s? Cast yourself back to the days of dial-up and let us know on social media.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/heartinternet\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeartInternet\">Twitter <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/heartinternet\/\">Instagram<\/a> &#8211; so come and get social with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is 30 years old. We look at some of the pioneering websites of the 1990s, to appreciate just how far we\u2019ve come in such a short time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24,29],"tags":[89,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-22904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ui-ux","8":"category-web-design","9":"category-your-website","10":"tag-internet-history","11":"tag-websites-of-the-90s"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Throwback to the best websites of the 90s - Heart Internet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Throwback to the best websites of the 90s - Written by the team at Heart Internet.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/throwback-to-the-best-websites-of-the-90s\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Throwback to the best websites of the 90s - 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