Microsoft web page 20 years old

Do you remember when you first went online?  Older readers will recall that “back in the day” you would have to connect your phone line to the beige box and enter the connection phone number of your ISP, listen to some strange buzzing sounds to eventually be online.  Websites were very basic back then too, they had to be, because dial-up internet was really, really slow.  If you came across a site with a picture, well you could count several seconds for it to download. 

How long ago are we talking?  The oldest web-sites are now over 20 years old.  Microsoft are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the microsoft.com site by recreating the way it looked in 1994.

Microsoft have published an interesting post on their Fire-Hose blog, describing the history and how the page was recreated.  The post also includes screenshots of the Microsoft page over the years.

Check it out… http://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2014/08/07/throwback-thursday-microsoft-com-among-the-earliest-commercial-websites-has-been-on-the-web-for-20-years/