# Remember Google! with an ! in it? Or the Green Twttr Logo? Old Web Page designs. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-google-with-an-in-it-or-the-green-twttr-logo-old-web-page-designs/609924 "2012-01-18T19:26:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-google-with-an-in-it-or-the-green-twttr-logo-old-web-page-designs/609924/1 "2012-01-18T19:26:19Z")
This article brought back a few memories. 😃 I still remembered Google! originally had an exclamation mark. I never understood the change. I had never seen the first Amazon page before. Nor the butt ugly green Twttr Logo. I’m glad they decided to spell it Twitter and use a better color. Lots of memories here. > **[The world's browsing prehistory: 'Ancient' home pages for Amazon, Google and...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2088445/The-worlds-browsing-prehistory-The-home-page-Amazons-1994-home-page-TheFacebook-Google-things-changed.html)** > > Most of us don't remember that Google once had an exclamation mark - Google! - or that Amazon was once monochrome, but the early home pages show off how far the web has come. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-google-with-an-in-it-or-the-green-twttr-logo-old-web-page-designs/609924/2 "2012-01-18T19:45:11Z")
I definitely remember google during the beta testing era. I didn’t use twitter back when it had that logo, though. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-google-with-an-in-it-or-the-green-twttr-logo-old-web-page-designs/609924/3 "2012-01-18T20:29:02Z")
Too similar to Yahoo!..? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-google-with-an-in-it-or-the-green-twttr-logo-old-web-page-designs/609924/4 "2012-01-18T20:41:35Z")
:smack: You’re right. Google! looked like they were copying Yahoo!. So they dropped the exclamation mark. > [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Too similar to Yahoo!..? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-google-with-an-in-it-or-the-green-twttr-logo-old-web-page-designs/609924/5 "2012-01-18T20:49:09Z")
I’m not sure when the current Google logo came in; I think it must have been the first half of 1999. I certainly remember the old one, and I started using Google in a job I began in November 1998. I remember looking at Amazon in 1995, but I don’t recall it being quite as basic as the pic shown. The black text with blue hyperlinks on that ugly grey background takes me right back to the early days when I’d first discovered Mosaic, though! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-google-with-an-in-it-or-the-green-twttr-logo-old-web-page-designs/609924/6 "2012-01-18T20:53:50Z")
I recall that black text with blue links web designs worked really well with monochrome monitors. I had a Vaxstation with DECwindows in my office back then running Mosaic. My standard web search engine was altavista for many years. Then Google came along. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-google-with-an-in-it-or-the-green-twttr-logo-old-web-page-designs/609924/7 "2012-01-18T21:09:09Z")
Man I am most certainly a “late adopter.” I’ve been around The Internet since about 1996 and I don’t remember any of those! Well Amazon’s “A” logo but they were orange/black as far as I remember. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-google-with-an-in-it-or-the-green-twttr-logo-old-web-page-designs/609924/8 "2012-01-18T21:47:47Z")
As a joke, for the current MySpace page, they should have shown a 404. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-google-with-an-in-it-or-the-green-twttr-logo-old-web-page-designs/609924/9 "2012-01-18T21:51:33Z")
I remember when Amazon catalog urls often had the cryptic word Obidos in them (a nod to the same place in the Amazon river, as it turns out.) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-google-with-an-in-it-or-the-green-twttr-logo-old-web-page-designs/609924/10 "2012-01-18T22:00:49Z")
Speaking of terrible web design, seems The Daily Mail could use a redo. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-google-with-an-in-it-or-the-green-twttr-logo-old-web-page-designs/609924/11 "2012-01-18T22:21:25Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I remember when Amazon catalog urls often had the cryptic word Obidos in them (a nod to the same place in the Amazon river, as it turns out.) And not, as many thought, Obi-Wan’s son. 😛