Google's homepage, every month, since its launch

Ruben Bolling

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Watching this animation of Google's homepage as it has looked every month since its launch in 1998 is a good, quick visualization of the evolution of web design toward simplicity.

The Version Museum offers a visual history of the Google search page. It is not animated but annotated and includes a reference to a 1996 we…