Q&As after my recent talk make evident that those who don’t remember the web before platforms, tend to believe that for 10 years web users stared at their monitors in anticipation.
Let me refute this picture by sharing some screenshots of the websites from the One Terabyte of the Kilobyte Age archive that I tagged "before_..."
In this post I collected 10 most popular screenshots of the first 10 years. We turned many into video with sound, some pages are restored and can be explored on the live web.