The evolution of a web page.
Over the years I've found myself saving screenshots of a number of web pages.
Things, after all, change, and sometimes we find ourselves wanting to remember
the way things once were, or perhaps show others (Mosaic,
for instance). Yahoo!'s latest main page continues the portalization of the site
which (as some of us will remember) was once a web index. I saved a
screenshot from many years ago, and numerous people show the development of
that main page on their web sites. One of the best of these, with four screenshots
taken over the years, is here.
If anyone is really interested in the changes in Yahoo!'s site design (there's
at least one masters' thesis waiting to be written in there somewhere) the Wayback
Machine has thousands
of cached pages that can be viewed.
Today we have to scroll quite a bit down the page to find even a hint of that
directory. (My suggestion? If you have to use Yahoo! as an index - and I haven't
done that for ages - bookmark the directory
and go straight to it, avoiding the main page completely.)
Go to: Finding what's right for you, or
Go to: Doing a lot with very little, or
Go to: Templates from hell.