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What your favourite websites used to look like

The world’s biggest time-waster and source of information – the internet – hasn’t always been the seamless experience we know it as today.

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In 1996, Google’s logo was something made out of Microsoft WordArt, and Apple’s website was – well, you’d better just see for yourself.

Below are the world’s most popular websites as they looked during their humble beginnings in a handy infographic.

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