The homepages
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- adobe.com – 2000Jun 20, 2000
adobe.com in June 2000: four case-study columns under the slogan “Inspiration becomes reality” and an InDesign 1.5 upgrade for $99.95; the Flash feature doesn’t replay.
- altavista.com – 2000Jun 13, 2000
AltaVista in June 2000 as a portal: Free Internet Access and Raging Bull in the top bar, a yellow search bar, the Directory and “Win a Mercedes!”
- aol.com – 2000Jun 13, 2000
AOL.COM in June 2000: blue sign-in and search panels, an orange Shop panel and a merger vote for shareholders.
- apple.com – 2000Feb 26, 2000
The title is now just “Apple”, with fifteen tabs on top.
- bbc.co.uk – 2000Jun 18, 2000
BBC Online in June 2000: “Welcome to the UK's favourite website”, blue category links under a yellow heading and a Wimbledon promo.
- bestbuy.com – 2000Jun 11, 2000
BestBuy.com in June 2000: “Thanks for stopping by.”, “Soon you’ll find…” and “Want to know when we go live?”
- blizzard.com – 2000Jun 19, 2000
Diablo II “Gone Gold!” fills Blizzard's left column beside dated news.
- disney.com – 2000Jul 11, 2000
disney.com in July 2000, the HTML version: a blue and gold portal, “Where the Magic Lives Online!”, The Kid in theaters July 7th and a Flash plug-in link.
- gamefaqs.com – 2000Jun 16, 2000
GameFAQs homepage: a blue sidebar and compact block-letter logo frame news, a daily poll and the top games.
- gamespot.com – 2000Nov 9, 2000
GameSpot's 2000 homepage: A purple ZDNet portal combines PC and console news, a holiday gift guide and game rankings. Some header images are missing.
- geocities.com – 2000Jun 19, 2000
Yahoo! GeoCities: the five most popular neighborhoods, Hollywood to Tokyo, beside the Yahoo ID sign-in.
- hotmail.com – 2000Aug 15, 2000
Hotmail’s Passport sign-in page: six language buttons and “Your Account is Safe at Hotmail”.
- imdb.com – 2000Nov 9, 2000
A film-strip header, a yellow left sidebar and a center column of DVD offers, a poll and a Movie of the Day.
- lego.com – 2000Jun 19, 2000
LEGO.com in June 2000: “Welcome to the LEGO Worlds”, round windows to Star Wars, RoboRiders and Belville, and a “HI-BANDWITH FLASH SITE” button.
- lycos.com – 2000May 20, 2000
Lycos in May 2000: a dog with a “FREE ISP” sign by the search box, and a Spanish line calling Terra.com “nuestro nuevo socio”.
- mcdonalds.com – 2000Jun 20, 2000
McDonald's global gateway: a globe, a magnifying glass and “Select Country” (29 in the code).
- microsoft.com – 2000Jun 19, 2000
Twelve days after the break-up ruling: “Microsoft Confident That Judicial System Will Overturn District Court Ruling”.
- msn.com – 2000Jun 17, 2000
MSN.com in June 2000: the new butterfly logo, the yellow link columns and “How do cockroaches really survive?”.
- nintendo.com – 2000Jun 19, 2000
Nintendo’s homepage in June 2000: a Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards banner and one small tile under it.
- nokia.com – 2000Jun 20, 2000
Nokia's homepage in June 2000: “The World at Your Fingertips” and “If you thought Snake was good, you've got another thing coming.”
- nytimes.com – 2000Nov 9, 2000
NYTimes.com on November 9, 2000: “Bush Barely Ahead of Gore In Florida; Recount Holds Key” and an election results box.
- theguardian.com – 2000Aug 15, 2000
Guardian Unlimited in August 2000: a small vertical “network” joins the wordmark, beside the line “Online News Service of the Year - 2000”.
- walmart.com – 2000Nov 17, 2000
Walmart.com in November 2000, weeks after a reported 28-day shutdown: “Welcome to Walmart.com!” and Pokemon Gold for Game Boy Color at $27.88.
- yahoo.com – 2000Jun 16, 2000
Yahoo in June 2000: rows of services (Shop, Media, Connect, Personal) and a Yahoo! Shopping box above the directory.
- ea.com – 2000Jun 20, 2000
EA's cyan portal introduces The Sims (“you'll create and control people!”) and a five-free-games contest.
- ebay.com – 2000Jun 15, 2000
eBay in June 2000: “the world's online marketplace” beside the logo, Specialty Sites, Local Trading and a Father's Day link.
- amazon.com – 2000Jun 19, 2000
The smile logo, Movers & Shakers, and books for a penny.
- ask.com – 2000Jun 19, 2000
Ask Jeeves in June 2000: the drawn butler points at “Have a Question? Just type it in and click Ask!” on a cream page.
- cartoonnetwork.com – 2000Jun 20, 2000
Cartoon Network’s June 2000 homepage: a Cartoon Cartoon Summer grid with games, Boomerang, Toonami and “Request Your Favorite Cartoons!”.
- craigslist.org – 2000Mar 2, 2000
Craigslist in March 2000: a blue sidebar, gray category headings and a banner, “activist postings encouraged!”.
- espn.com – 2000Jul 6, 2000
ESPN.com in July 2000: the ESPN.com wordmark in a white oval and “Venus gets breaks in sister showdown” from Wimbledon.
- expedia.com – 2000Aug 15, 2000
Expedia.com with its own globe logo, blue tabs on a yellow bar, a Price Matcher box and a Traveler Tools list.
- google.com – 2000Feb 29, 2000
Google in February 2000: a new logo without the exclamation mark and a promotional link below the buttons, “Add Free WebSearch To Your Site”.
- icq.com – 2000Aug 15, 2000
ICQ.com in August 2000: a yellow and lime portal with the counter “74,142,101 ICQ Users Around the World” and ICQ in ten languages.
- ign.com – 2000Jun 20, 2000
IGN.com in June 2000: a white and blue portal, “Voted best entertainment site by Wired magazine's readers' raves”, a super babe special.
- ikea.com – 2000Aug 15, 2000
IKEA Worldwide in August 2000: a round “Brighter Living” badge tops the news column; still no shop.
- newgrounds.com – 2000Jun 20, 2000
Newgrounds in June 2000, “The Problems of the Future, Today!”: a note that the Portal holds over 900 movies, and news from partner sites.
- nike.com – 2000Jun 19, 2000
A black nike.com STORE page, “U.S. sales only”, with a NIKEiD box: “Custom build your shoes”.
- playstation.com – 2000Jun 19, 2000
PlayStation’s global homepage in June 2000, still the black region picker with orbiting controller buttons.
- pokemon.com – 2000Jun 17, 2000
Pokémon World in June 2000: Pokémon News, a Pikachu Nintendo 64, a Fantasy Pokémon League and the Pokédex dropdown.
- winamp.com – 2000Jun 19, 2000
Winamp homepage in 2000: a pale, full-width portal replaces the dark layout, grouping Nullsoft news, Winamp downloads, radio and skins. Some images are missing in this archived rendering.
- blogger.com – 2000Nov 9, 2000
Blogger’s orange B heads a three-column news page with fresh blogs and account forms.
- napster.com – 2000Feb 29, 2000
Napster’s black homepage has a yellow Beta 5a download panel and copyright-policy links.
- netflix.com – 2000Jan 24, 2000
Editors' picks, the yellow FlixFinder bar, “Try Marquee” and “So Far You've Rated 0 Movies”.
- paypal.com – 2000Aug 15, 2000
PayPal in August 2000: the X logo, a login box with X PayPal and X Finance, and “Millions of users and growing!”
- cnn.com – 2000Nov 9, 2000
First captureAn ELECTION 2000 masthead, a left-hand section menu and tables of the unfinished count.
- deviantart.com – 2000Aug 15, 2000
First capturedeviantART’s homepage in August 2000: a grey-green portal with Application Skins first in the menu, a ShoutBox and a page-rendering time of 0.828118 seconds
- runescape.com – 2000Aug 17, 2000
First captureJagex Software's page announces RuneScape as “Coming soon”, with a mySimon banner ad, game screenshots and a hand-drawn map.
One capture per site from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, checked by eye. What a capture shows is what the archive kept that day: some images and scripts are missing.
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