These 10-Year-Old Website Screenshots Show How Fast the Internet Has Changed - University of Atlanta Explore, Educate & Evolve Campaign

Today, there are more than three billion internet users in the world which accounts for 40 percent of the world’s population. Looking back at these website screenshots you will realize how far we have come from the digital Stone Age which was only 10 years ago.

Facebook.com

The world’s largest social networking site ‘Facebook.com’ which was founded in 2005 currently has over 1.3 billion active users and 890 million daily active users. Initially, it was just a social network site for Harvard students but soon it took over the world. Here is how it looked like back in 2005.

Source: web.archive.org

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Youtube.com

The world’s largest video sharing platform was launched in 2005 and it had only 65,000 daily video uploads and around 100 million video views every day, which in 10 years grew to 4 billion daily video views and 300 video hours uploaded every minute. This is how the site looked in 2005.

Source: web.archive.org

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Twitter.com

Twitter that introduced the world with short 140 character crisp messages in 2006 was initially a service that people used to answer only one question that was ‘what are you doing’. Initially, twitter users were posting 20,000 tweets a day which in nine years grew to 500 million tweets a day and 288 million active users. This is how the site looked like in 2006.

Source: web.archive.org

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Google.com

Google.com is the heart of web search. The initial site would search nearly 25 million web pages, had a subscription option and updated monthly. This is how the internet giants looked like in their first days.

Source: web.archive.org

In 2005, Google was quite close to what it looks today but still only searched 8 billion pages and also had online shopping search engine named as ‘Froogle’. 

Source: web.archive.org

Today, Google search searches more than 1 trillion unique web pages and is updated several times a day.

Wikipedia.org

The free encyclopedia that anyone is able to edit started with as less as 6,000 pages and wanted to make over 100,000 pages. Today, Wikipedia has over 35 million pages and 70,000 active editors in its community. This is how they used were like in their early days.

Source: web.archive.org

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