Yahoo - 10 years ago...

Richard M · 04-03-2005, 00:38

http://promo.yahoo.com/birthday10/incorporation/

**Paul** · 04-03-2005, 00:41

Quote:

There are currently 31897 entries in the Yahoo database

Halcyon · 04-03-2005, 00:43

LOL

The design is appalling.

Richard M · 04-03-2005, 00:53

Hehe, this says it all:

Code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Yahoo</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#c0c0c0">
<H1>Yahoo</H1>

Compared to today:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="http://www.example.com/favicon.ico" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.example.com/css/i-web.css" />
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Yahoo</h1>

Oh how things have changed...

danielf · 04-03-2005, 01:00

I'm getting 'the connection was refused when attempting to contact' promo.yahoo.com.

That's using Firefox which is supposed to be faster than IE, but I'm starting to doubt that.

Richard M · 04-03-2005, 01:03

Well seeing as it's been posted on Slashdot, you'll get "timed out" in IE too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdotted

Anyways, they talk about the "great browser wars" here, mentioning IE, Netscape and the recent Firefox.

http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

Millay · 04-03-2005, 10:34

Ahh i rember when yahoo was nice and quick like that...

philip.j.fry · 04-03-2005, 11:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by danielf

I'm getting 'the connection was refused when attempting to contact' promo.yahoo.com.

That's using Firefox which is supposed to be faster than IE, but I'm starting to doubt that.

It's because Firefox didn't exist ten years ago so it won't talk to you, try Mosaic

Richard M · 04-03-2005, 11:41

Well it works here.

keithwalton · 04-03-2005, 11:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by philip.j.fry

It's because Firefox didn't exist ten years ago so it won't talk to you, try Mosaic

Err dont think so, it'll just be the servers busy

Graham M · 04-03-2005, 11:58

Or Ie 2 :d

jtwn · 04-03-2005, 14:05

Didn't miss out on much then

TigaSefi · 04-03-2005, 14:09

i remember yahoo when it first started. it was brilliant back then.

Gareth · 04-03-2005, 14:42

Heh, I first used the web back in the summer of 1995, and I remember Yahoo being a lot more basic than it is today, but I don't quite remember it only having 31897 entries