Here's what Yahoo looked like in October 1996: Designs were simplistic owing to HTML having not been developed significantly and were characterised by the Times New Roman font, low res images (if any) and tiled backgrounds. The initial format of the Web largely comprised static pages of information provided by companies, corporations and organisations.
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This article has been made possible by the amazing efforts of 's WayBack Machine, an archive of the Web's history since 1996. I don't know if you've heard of Web 2.0, but that didn't happen until about 2002 - this was very much Web 1.0. At the event they had a room tucked away with a bunch of PCs made available for 'surfing the web'. Simply were the first people I bought PC hardware from, specifically a CD-ROM drive and a Sound Blaster AWE32 (and probably some RAM). Although I don't remember the exact date, I do remember that Gary Mabbutt (former Tottenham Hotspur team captain) was the 'celebrity' who was invited along to cut the ribbon so for me, as a Spurs fan, this was a bonus. It was at the opening of Simply Computers' new warehouse and store on Blackhorse Road in London. I couldn't tell you the first time I heard of the Web, but the first time I accessed it was in 1997. There are definitions at the bottom of this page but the TL DR version is that the Internet is the 'hardware' that connects the world's computers together, and the web is the 'software' that runs on it. To begin, this article won't make much sense if you don't know the difference between the Internet (capital I) and the Web (capital W).
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