It’s easy to forget, in these days of handheld devices and interactive, hyper-dynamic web design, that websites were pretty much hideously ugly 10 years ago. Or maybe our aesthetic standards have changed and they actually seemed acceptable at the time. Either way, perusing the Telegraph’s listicle of How 20 Popular Sites Looked When They Launched (explore more at WayBackMachine) is an exercise in ugly. Like, check out the original Yahoo! homepage from 1994:

Another old school homepage not on the Telegraph’s list.

Los Angeles Times in 1996, ouch:

(via Urlesque)