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Amazon's 1994 home page looks totally different to the picture-heavy home page we know today, but still includes identifiable Amazon ingredients such as customer recommendations

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Amazon's home page today is much more colourful, offering products from homewares to electronics, as well as customers' own stores

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The 1998 Google home page was very different to the slimmed-down page we look at today - but only offered search, rather than the full suite of Google services we enjoy today

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Today's Google home page is much more stripped down, and offers services such as mail, video, maps and news direct from the home page

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The launch page for TheFacebook in 1994 - Mark Zuckerberg's site was only for college students at Harvard. It spread via other colleges, then became open to everyone in 2006

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Facebook's look is still trimmed-down today - but the interior pages are filled with colour, all created and shared by users (plus, of course, the odd advert)

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YouTube's new 'TV channel' presentation is a far cry from the site's bare-bones roots, when the company was still run from a garage

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YouTube's 'new look' organises the site into 'channels' to help it compete with TV services such as cable and satellite

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Since Myspace's launch in 2003 it rose to become the most-visited site on the web, then plunged again - it's

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MySpace still exists today - although the site is a pale shadow of its former glories. The site has become very coy about user figures - but is thought to have less than 20 million users in the U.S.

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Twitter shortly after launch in 2006. The 140-character limit was dictated by the upper limit on text messages on phones - and early versions of the home page reflected this

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Twitter's home page today is still mobile-focused - although most people now use the service via apps and software rather than PC browsers

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