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User interfaces of popular websites over the years

Rob Beschizza
Oct 10, 2025
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Jason Kottke made a graphic showing how YouTube’s progress bar has changed in the 20 years since it launched in 2005. I don’t think I even noticed the latest, and if I were asked to recreate it from memory I would crudely Figmatize the 2008-2010 version, old enough to be at college now. That’s the one that stuck with Kottke, too: “a nostalgia bomb, albe…

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