Time Machine to early GameSpot

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#1 ISuperGamerI
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Hi everyone. I found something very interesting that I hope you all enjoy. These are URLs to the sites of GameSpot in the early days. As you can see, the sites kept getting improved. I hope this does not get me banned or even suspended from GameSpot. If someone can please link these it would be great and would save people time. Please leave a comment as what you think.

1996

http://web.archive.org/web/19961105034129/http://www.gamespot.com/

1997

http://web.archive.org/web/19970205003822/http://www.gamespot.com/

1998

http://web.archive.org/web/19990125095523/http://www.gamespot.com/

1999

http://web.archive.org/web/19991013103427/gamespot.com/index.html

2000

http://web.archive.org/web/20001206080600/www.zdnet.com/gamespot/filters/0,10850,6013548,00.html

2001

http://web.archive.org/web/20001206080600/www.zdnet.com/gamespot/filters/0,10850,6013548,00.html

2002

http://web.archive.org/web/20011217231301/gamespot.com/gamespot/filters/0,10850,6013054,00.html

2003

http://web.archive.org/web/20030801075745/www.gamespot.com/index.html

2004

http://web.archive.org/web/20041019031608/http://www.gamespot.com/index.html

2005

http://web.archive.org/web/20050129014119/http://www.gamespot.com/index.html

2006

http://web.archive.org/web/20061018233959/http://www.gamespot.com/

2007

http://www.gamespot.com/

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#2 best-gam3r
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somebody plz linky them...
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#3 sinistergoggles
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Oh man, that's awesome. I member as far as 2004 though. :P
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I miss lithium :cry:
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#5 RoyTheViking
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Lol. The 2004 one has an N-Gage icon on the top.
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#6 Zaeryn
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Wow, this is interesting to look at.
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#7 RoyTheViking
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Here's a good one.
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#8 RoyTheViking
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What if you put in archive.org? What would it say?

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#9 _rock_
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Great find
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#10 ISuperGamerI
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These sites are a bit slow but are about 90% functional. Wayback Machine is a site where you can take a look at the early site designs of places like GameSpot. Please keep this topic bumped as other people might be interested. Thank you. :)
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#11 Brainkiller05
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Awesomy ;D
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#12 Samwel_X
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I've seen these before, but they are always good.
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#13 LJS9502_basic
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Yes I know....and I remember as well.
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#14 Cutekitten6_18
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This is cool! It looked so ugly in 1996! :lol:
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#15 DivineSword  Moderator
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That's awesome I remember the old day.
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#16 ISuperGamerI
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This is cool! It looked so ugly in 1996! :lol:Cutekitten6_18

Lol. I love your signature and those little cartoons. I remember GameSpot since the year 2000 but I never was interested in it until early 2004.

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#17 DJ-Lafleur
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Well, that was certainly pretty cool, especially since I din't join until well, 2007.
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#18 Putzwapputzen
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hahaha, thats awesome!
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#19 Karl319
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Linkified as per request of topic creator. 1996 http://web.archive.org/web/19961105034129/http://www.gamespot.com/ 1997 http://web.archive.org/web/19970205003822/http://www.gamespot.com/ 1998 http://web.archive.org/web/19990125095523/http://www.gamespot.com/ 1999 http://web.archive.org/web/19991013103427/gamespot.com/index.html 2000 http://web.archive.org/web/20001206080600/www.zdnet.com/gamespot/filters/0,10850,6013548,00.html 2001 http://web.archive.org/web/20001206080600/www.zdnet.com/gamespot/filters/0,10850,6013548,00.html 2002 http://web.archive.org/web/20011217231301/gamespot.com/gamespot/filters/0,10850,6013054,00.html 2003 http://web.archive.org/web/20030801075745/www.gamespot.com/index.html 2004 http://web.archive.org/web/20041019031608/http://www.gamespot.com/index.html 2005 http://web.archive.org/web/20050129014119/http://www.gamespot.com/index.html 2006 http://web.archive.org/web/20061018233959/http://www.gamespot.com/ 2007 http://www.gamespot.com/ Saw this stuff a while ago. It's awesome tho, I remember around 200...2 gamespot. They should put forums on those sites for laughs :P ... we could pretend it's 1998 OMGHALFLAIF1 IS COMING :P
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#20 newhenpal
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Hi everyone. I found something very interesting that I hope you all enjoy. These are URLs to the sites of GameSpot in the early days. As you can see, the sites kept getting improved. I hope this does not get me banned or even suspended from GameSpot. If someone can please link these it would be great and would save people time. Please leave a comment as what you think.

1996

http://web.archive.org/web/19961105034129/http://www.gamespot.com/

1997

http://web.archive.org/web/19970205003822/http://www.gamespot.com/

1998

http://web.archive.org/web/19990125095523/http://www.gamespot.com/

1999

http://web.archive.org/web/19991013103427/gamespot.com/index.html

2000

http://web.archive.org/web/20001206080600/www.zdnet.com/gamespot/filters/0,10850,6013548,00.html

2001

http://web.archive.org/web/20001206080600/www.zdnet.com/gamespot/filters/0,10850,6013548,00.html

2002

http://web.archive.org/web/20011217231301/gamespot.com/gamespot/filters/0,10850,6013054,00.html

2003

http://web.archive.org/web/20030801075745/www.gamespot.com/index.html

2004

http://web.archive.org/web/20041019031608/http://www.gamespot.com/index.html

2005

http://web.archive.org/web/20050129014119/http://www.gamespot.com/index.html

2006

http://web.archive.org/web/20061018233959/http://www.gamespot.com/

2007

http://www.gamespot.com/

ISuperGamerI

And than I said 'Let there be links'

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#21 ventaxon
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Another intresting one

http://web.archive.org/web/19981207074153/http://www.newgrounds.com/index.html

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#22 ISuperGamerI
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Thats a bit Off-Topic but still neat to look at some famous sites and to see how they started out in the business.
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#23 ISuperGamerI
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Going to bump this topic for the people that have not seen it yet.
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#24 Scienceblows
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Oldddd i knew of this even before i joined :|
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#25 Scienceblows
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I found this funny

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#27 QW-34
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Ahh, seeing it now, I remember the first time I came on this site, back in 2004. I remember that setup really well.
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#28 *Ganondorf
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Oh cool, That brings back memories.
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#29 msudude211
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That's cool. Thanks for the links.
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#30 ISuperGamerI
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That's cool. Thanks for the links.msudude211

No problem.

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#31 Elraptor
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Unless you've hidden pr0n in the links somewhere, I can't imagine why you would fear being suspended or banned. >_>
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#32 Elraptor
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Ah, good old 2004.
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#33 ISuperGamerI
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Unless you've hidden pr0n in the links somewhere, I can't imagine why you would fear being suspended or banned. >_>Elraptor

I just thought it would be against the ToS to have links to the old sites of GameSpot.

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#34 EwanMac
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Haha, awesome. I only came on end of 2004 when I was looking to see if my computer would handle Half Life 2.
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#35 nintendo_fan675
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Good old GS of 2001
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#36 Dr_Brocoli
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Cool!
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#37 ISuperGamerI
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The site design for GameSpot in 2004 was very memorable.
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#38 Dutch_Mix
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Wow. That brought back a lot of good memories. Thanks, dude. :)
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#39 uncledeath2005
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Gotta love the retro
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#40 buxboy
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Yeah i remember 04. I really miss the forum style before it changed in October 2005.
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#41 Crunchman
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I started getting into GameSpot at around 1998, so I haven't seen the oldest of the designs. I'm a bit glad I didn't either, it looks pretty bad. :P

GameSpot '98.

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#42 Sim_genius
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Already seen them but yeah GS was very small when it started :P
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#43 ISuperGamerI
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Wow. That brought back a lot of good memories. Thanks, dude. :)Dutch_Mix

No problem.

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#44 Kikouken
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lol. I like the 2004 layout more than this.
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#45 ISuperGamerI
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lol. I like the 2004 layout more than this. Kikouken

That site design was old-school.