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Check out our YouTube video showing thedesign evolution of the Microsoft.com website!It has all the images and captions from this page, and is easy on the eyes.Microsoft's journey on the web is long and storied. The Redmond, Washington-based software juggernautwas a very early internet adopter, with a web presence as early as 1994. Company founder Bill Gates realized theimportance of the internet and the profound shift it could represent in personal computing.This is long before most people evenknew the internet existed. Microsoft's historical website design changed numerous times over the years. In fact,the enterprise software giant morphed its homepage web design far more than its peers over the same period.Microsoft's early web presence (1994)Microsoft's design history over the years was varied, but started off with this imagemap-basedhomepage with links to various products and services. The gray background was a familiar sight in the time periodsince it was the default web page background color for early browsers.Microsoft homepage (1994)
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In 1995, Bill Gates penned a seminal internal company memo declaring the internet to be the future of Microsoft. Titled"The Internet Tidal Wave,"the note states"the Internet is the most important single development to come along since the IBM PC was introduced in 1981.It is even more important than the arrival of the graphical user interface (GUI)."
As the company learned to use the internet to provide information and services to its users, the more sophisticated and usefulMicrosoft.com became. Windows 95 launched that year with a splash and useful content made its way to the website. In 1997,the company started publishing its stock price on the homepage.Microsoft homepage (1995)
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Microsoft solidified its web presence with ever-increasing amounts of content about all the software it sold.
More interesting at the time was the fact that the US Department of Justice sued Microsoft,accusing it of using monopoly powers to impede healthy competition in the software industry. Microsoft and founder Bill Gates defendedthemselves vigorously, both in real court and in the court of public opinion. Microsoft's website contained front page linksto news about the trial and even provided information on how to support the company against the government.Microsoft homepage (1998)
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Microsoft used a variety of communication platforms, both online and offline, to defend itself against theUS government's lawsuit. Hanging in the balance was Microsoft's future as a single corporate entity. TheFreedom toInnovate Network was a lobbying campaign to cultivate grassroots voices against the lawsuit.Freedom To Innovate Homepage (1999)
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The IE 5 browser launched in 1999. It would be considered crazy today, but ordering a CDwith the browser software was a popular option at the time due to slow connection speeds that caused downloads totake a really long time. Dialup internet over phone lines was still common then.Internet Explorer 5 Download Center (1999)
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The homepage reflected high priority efforts for the company. Continuing its struggle against theDepartment of Justice, it urged the dismissal of the government breakup of Microsoft, front and center above the fold.
In what would be an ongoing theme for the website, the homepage contained a high-profile link to informusers about the "Love Letter" virus. This computer worm infectedmillions of Windows PCs by running malicious VBscript code disguised as a love letter email attachment.Homepage with commentary on antitrust appeal and Love Letter virus (2000)
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Microsoft wasn't afraid to poke fun at itself from time to time. In 2001, the homepage declared "Clippy's out of a job"to market the launch of the Office XP Suite. Clippy was the much-maligned Office assistantpeople loved to hate.Clippy's demise (2001)
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The Mydoom virus was (and still is as of 2019) the fastest spreading email worm ever. Precious Microsoft.com homepagereal estate was used to warn users and educate people who were infected.Homepage with MyDoom virus info (2004)
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While Microsoft employed its website to showcase its software from the very beginning, a shift was noticeablein 2005. Exclusive XBox titles such as Jade Empirewere prominently displayed, enticing customers to purchase the game. The storefront trend would only gain steam over time.Microsoft homepage (2005)
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The homepage storefront continued in 2007 as Microsoft tried to compete with Apple's iPod brand. The ill-fatedZune line of portable media devices was promoted heavily at the time.XBox 360 was also prominently marketed.Homepage showing the Zune player (2007)
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Silverlight was Microsoft's Adobe Flash competitor. Released in2007, it was intended to create a more interactive user experience on webpages, similarto Flash which was extremely popular at the time. In 2008, Microsoft.com began encouraging users to install Silverlight witha giant modal popup box on the homepage. Silverlight never achieved critical mass and was later deprecated.Homepage asking to install MS Silverlight (2008)
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Microsoft began its foray into responsive web design in 2012.Surface laptops, Windows Phone devices, and XBox consoles were popular homepage dwellers.Microsoft's first responsive homepage (2012)
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In 2014, Microsoft launched a Fitbit-like wristband device calledMicrosoft Band to break into the fitness market.The line was unsuccessful and shut down in 2016.Microsoft Band Health Device (2014)
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The brisk pace of design change in Microsoft's homepage over the past twenty years finally slowed down in the mid 2010's.Gone are the virus warnings and anti-government messages of past, in favor of crisp, slick product marketing photos.Microsoft.com homepage (2015)
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The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.[1][2][4] It provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates for a free and open Internet. As of February 4, 2024[update], the Internet Archive held more than 44 million print materials, 10.6 million videos, 1 million software programs, 15 million audio files, 4.8 million images, 255,000 concerts, and over 835 billion web pages in its Wayback Machine.[5] Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge".[5]
The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures.[6][7] The Archive also oversees numerous book digitization projects, collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts.
Brewster Kahle founded the Archive in May 1996, around the same time that he began the for-profit web crawling company Alexa Internet.[8][9] The earliest known archived page on the site was saved on May 10, 1996, at 2:42 pm UTC (7:42 am PDT). By October of that year, the Internet Archive had begun to archive and preserve the World Wide Web in large amounts.[10][11][12][13][14] The archived content became more easily available to the general public in 2001, through the Wayback Machine.
In late 1999, the Archive expanded its collections beyond the web archive, beginning with the Prelinger Archives. Now, the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software. It hosts a number of other projects: the NASA Images Archive, the contract crawling service Archive-It, and the wiki-editable library catalog and book information site Open Library. Soon after that, the Archive began working to provide specialized services relating to the information access needs of the print-disabled; publicly accessible books were made available in a protected Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) format.[15]
Most societies place importance on preserving artifacts of their culture and heritage. Without such artifacts, civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from its successes and failures. Our culture now produces more and more artifacts in digital form. The Archive's mission is to help preserve those artifacts and create an Internet library for researchers, historians, and scholars.
In August 2012, the Archive announced[17] that it has added BitTorrent to its file download options for more than 1.3 million existing files, and all newly uploaded files.[18][19] This method is the fastest means of downloading media from the Archive, as files are served from two Archive data centers, in addition to other torrent clients which have downloaded and continue to serve the files.[18][20] On November 6, 2013, the Internet Archive's headquarters in San Francisco's Richmond District caught fire,[21] destroying equipment and damaging some nearby apartments.[22] According to the Archive, it lost a side-building housing one of 30 of its scanning centers; cameras, lights, and scanning equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars; and "maybe 20 boxes of books and film, some irreplaceable, most already digitized, and some replaceable".[23] The nonprofit Archive sought donations to cover the estimated $600,000 in damage.[24]
In November 2016, Kahle announced that the Internet Archive was building the Internet Archive of Canada, a copy of the Archive to be based somewhere in Canada. The announcement received widespread coverage due to the implication that the decision to build a backup archive in a foreign country was because of the upcoming presidency of Donald Trump.[27][28][29] Kahle was quoted as saying:
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