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- adobe.com – 2009Nov 1, 2009
adobe.com in November 2009: Creative Suite 4 and “Import video up to 150% faster*” on the dark product and news grid.
- altavista.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
AltaVista in June 2009: the blue search form down to three tabs, Web, Images and News, with a red FIND button.
- aol.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
AOL.com in June 2009: a customizable portal whose My Stuff panel shows AOL Mail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail.
- apple.com – 2009Jun 1, 2009
iPod shuffle: “Small talk.”
- bbc.co.uk – 2009Jun 15, 2009
The BBC homepage in June 2009: “Add more to this page”, market data in Business & Money and a world map in Travel.
- bestbuy.com – 2009Jun 12, 2009
Best Buy in June 2009: the same blue header and a blank banner area, with featured offers and the Outlet Center below.
- blizzard.com – 2009Nov 10, 2009
Blizzard's redesigned blue homepage at us.blizzard.com: a Wrath of the Lich King hero above game cards.
- disney.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
disney.com in June 2009, the lite homepage: Mickey’s welcome sign, games and videos links and a row of character worlds.
- gamefaqs.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
GameFAQs homepage: the wider blue-and-white page groups Today on GameFAQs, game charts, an E3 section and the daily poll.
- gamespot.com – 2009Mar 15, 2009
GameSpot's 2009 homepage: Orange section bars organize a dense news feed, video thumbnails and community links.
- geocities.com – 2009Jun 19, 2009
Yahoo! GeoCities, June 2009: “Sorry, new GeoCities accounts are no longer available.”
- imdb.com – 2009Apr 2, 2009
Video thumbnails appear below the big database name; the header still has a film-strip edge.
- lego.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
LEGO.com in June 2009: the blue portal with Products, Play and Shop panels; the large Flash feature is empty in the replay.
- lycos.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
Lycos in June 2009: Father's Day gifts, Gamesville games and a weather box in Oakland suggesting “Act like a robot”.
- mcdonalds.com – 2009Jun 11, 2009
McDonald's USA homepage: the McCafé Theatré, “watch the mini-plays and McCafé your day”.
- microsoft.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
Menus for every product family; Windows HPC Server on top.
- msn.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
MSN.com in June 2009, our last capture of the old design: a Bing search box, “Make MSN your homepage” and the Dow at 8,612.13.
- nintendo.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
Nintendo’s homepage in June 2009: Final Fantasy IV: The After Years and The Legendary Starfy in the Wii and DS panels.
- nokia.com – 2009Jun 20, 2009
Nokia's June 2009 homepage: a glider photo over a green bar, “Complete list of Nokia websites”, with an Online Stores tab.
- nytimes.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
NYTimes.com in June 2009: a TimesPeople bar on top and “The Weekender”, for as low as $3.80 a week, on both sides of the masthead.
- spacejam.com – 2009Feb 1, 2009
Space Jam's Warner Home Video page: “OWN IT NOW ON DVD!”, the 2-disc case and Bugs Bunny on a giant disc.
- theguardian.com – 2009Apr 1, 2009
guardian.co.uk on April 1, 2009: the April Fools’ headline “Guardian to swap paper for Twitter” and London weather, 15°C.
- walmart.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
Walmart.com in June 2009: the new Walmart logo with a yellow spark, and gadgets with “Free Shipping with site to store”.
- yahoo.com – 2009Sep 1, 2009
Yahoo in September 2009: “Take a sneak peek at the new Yahoo! homepage” over a left column of service icons.
- ea.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
EA's white games portal over Spore Galactic Adventures art, with an odometer counting 0438 total games.
- ebay.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
eBay in June 2009: a Daily Deal tab and a “What's In Demand” word cloud.
- nick.com – 2009Nov 15, 2009
Nick.com in November 2009: the orange lowercase nick logo, and rows of games and videos.
- amazon.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
Father's Day, Kindle DX and netbooks.
- ask.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
Ask.com in June 2009: a plain white page offering “web, images, news, videos, maps, and lots of answers.”
- craigslist.org – 2009Sep 18, 2009
Craigslist’s SF bay area page in September 2009: the 2008 layout, with the event calendar on the left.
- espn.com – 2009Jun 19, 2009
ESPN.com in June 2009, after the January redesign: a red gradient and “Live on ESPN/360: U.S. Open Coverage”.
- expedia.com – 2009May 3, 2009
Expedia's “Free nights & no-fee flights”, a flu advisory for Mexico and a hotel search set to Freetown, Sierra Leone.
- google.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
Google in June 2009: a top bar from Web to Gmail, and “Privacy” beside the ©2009 line.
- icq.com – 2009Jun 19, 2009
ICQ.com in June 2009: the tiled homepage promotes ICQ 6.5, with Cyrillic words in its tag cloud (member posts blurred).
- ign.com – 2009Jun 18, 2009
IGN in June 2009: a red page surround frames a large Guitar Hero feature and three columns of news.
- ikea.com – 2009Jun 12, 2009
IKEA’s US homepage in June 2009: a grid of promotion tiles under a mostly yellow menu bar.
- newgrounds.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
Newgrounds in June 2009: the same dark panels with community news and featured submissions.
- nike.com – 2009Sep 3, 2009
Nike's US homepage tiles, with NIKEiD “Customize Now” and Nike+ “Human Race 10K”.
- playstation.com – 2009Jun 2, 2009
UK PlayStation homepage, June 2009: Fuel’s “Head Into The Wilderness” above games and news, with PLAYSTATION®3 still in capitals.
- winamp.com – 2009Jun 25, 2009
Winamp homepage in 2009: Winamp 5.55 occupies the dark red hero while player downloads and community panels fill the lower columns.
- blogger.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
Blogger says “Create a blog. It’s free.” beside benefits and an orange signup button.
- netflix.com – 2009Feb 1, 2009
Similar layout; streaming in the footer.
- paypal.com – 2009Feb 18, 2009
PayPal in February 2009: the grey login box, a Developers tab, and Pay online and Get paid online right under the tabs.
- cnn.com – 2009Nov 1, 2009
The CNN logo sits in the center of a red header above a grid of photo-led stories.
- deviantart.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
deviantART’s homepage in June 2009: a browse page of popular deviations with a deviantWEAR box
- runescape.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
RuneScape's landing page: painted warriors, Welcome to RuneScape, Play Now; the Flash promotion's slot is left black.
- miniclip.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
Miniclip’s 2009 homepage: a cyan portal with dense game lists; the replay shows a 10th Anniversary logo that belongs to a later year.
- wikipedia.org – 2009Jan 10, 2009
Wikipedia in January 2009: Русский joins the ten languages around the globe and 日本語 moves up beside English.
- xbox.com – 2009Jun 19, 2009
Xbox.com in June 2009: an Xbox 360 page headlined “Xbox Unveils Controller-Free Gaming and Entertainment”.
- addictinggames.com – 2009Jun 22, 2009
AddictingGames.com in June 2009: “Join Now- IT'S FREE!”, the AG Showdown vote and a black New Games panel.
- friendster.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
Friendster replaces the member directory with a blue login panel and a large registration form.
- steampowered.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
Steam’s store homepage in June 2009: Prototype in the main banner, Braid and Plants vs. Zombies, and 29 publisher catalogs.
- last.fm – 2009Jun 15, 2009
Last.fm’s dark blue panel pairs a white artist field with a cyan Go button above events, music clips and charts.
- myspace.com – 2009Jul 1, 2009
Myspace in July 2009: a Jeremih album banner above “Today on MySpace” and celebrity status updates with moods.
- skype.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
Skype homepage: a boy with a Rubik’s Cube in a video call window, “Free calls with Skype”.
- tesla.com – 2009Jun 25, 2009
Tesla’s Model S “starting at $49,900*” joins the Roadster; the price includes a $7,500 tax credit.
- digg.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
Digg in June 2009: “Connect with Facebook” joins the header next to “Join Digg”.
- facebook.com – 2009Feb 2, 2009
Facebook in February 2009: a world map of orange figures and “Facebook makes it easy to reconnect with old friends and family”.
- orkut.com – 2009Jun 12, 2009
Orkut's 2009 public landing page keeps the pink wordmark and three-part pitch next to Google sign-in.
- clubpenguin.com – 2009Jun 27, 2009
Club Penguin’s homepage in June 2009: the snowy island above five cards, with Toys in place of the Online Shop.
- etsy.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
Etsy's June gift guide “Americana Folk” and an Explore section with Treasury, Pounce and Shop Local.
- huffpost.com – 2009Feb 2, 2009
The Huffington Post page dated February 1, 2009, Super Bowl Sunday (saved early February 2 UTC): “OBAMA'S SUPER VOW” in red capitals and a “MAKE HUFFPOST YOUR HOMEPAGE” link.
- linkedin.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
LinkedIn in June 2009: “Over 40 million professionals use LinkedIn” beside a Join LinkedIn Today form.
- reddit.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
Reddit in June 2009: a strip of communities across the top, a job-board ad with a suited alien and “Create your own reddit”.
- wordpress.com – 2009Jun 17, 2009
WordPress.com: the yellow signup banner remains, with login on the left, featured community posts in the middle, and tags on the right.
- youtube.com – 2009Nov 30, 2009
Bordered boxes: “Videos Being Watched Now”, “Featured Videos” and “Most Popular”.
- kongregate.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
Kongregate's 2009 homepage: a Kongregate Collabs feature sits above Hot New Games, Highest Rated Games and contest rankings.
- spotify.com – 2009Jun 18, 2009
Spotify in June 2009: “A world of music. Instant, simple and free”, with Free, Day pass and Premium all “Not available in your country yet”.
- twitter.com – 2009Jun 15, 2009
Twitter in June 2009: the same bird drawing, a red “Watch a video!” button and quotes from TIME and Wired.
- zillow.com – 2009Feb 28, 2009
Zillow.com in February 2009: tabs for Homes, Mortgage, Advice, Directory and Local Info plus More and My Zillow, and a row of counters starting with “All Homes: 85,415,106”, over homes for sale in Maryland.
- dropbox.com – 2009Dec 11, 2009
Dropbox.com in December 2009: a big “Watch a Video” play button over pale box shapes and a Download Dropbox button.
- tumblr.com – 2009Jun 19, 2009
Tumblr in June 2009: “The easiest way to blog.” on a lime box above a column of “Popular Stuff from the Tumblr network”.
- github.com – 2009Jun 17, 2009
GitHub in June 2009: “GitHub is for Public Open Source and Private Business Code”, a repository search box and the featured project yajl.
- hulu.com – 2009Jul 1, 2009
Hulu’s homepage in July 2009, “Watch your favorites. Anytime. For free.”: an empty black carousel band in this replay over columns of free episodes and clips.
- stackoverflow.com – 2009Jun 11, 2009
Stack Overflow in June 2009: “Recent Questions” with vote, answer and view boxes and a “Hello World!” welcome box.
- bing.com – 2009Jun 16, 2009
First captureBing in June 2009: a grey panel where the daily photo doesn't load, “Live Search is evolving. Tour Bing.” and an Explore menu.
- minecraft.net – 2009May 22, 2009
First captureminecraft.net in May 2009: “Minecraft (alpha)”, a login box, “Nothing here yet!” and a request for a web designer; we found no 2009 capture of its logo image.
- soundcloud.com – 2009Jun 11, 2009
First captureSoundCloud’s homepage in June 2009: “SoundCloud - We Move Music” for artists, record labels and other music professionals, with an orange Watch a Video box.
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