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Time Machine: Portland Newspaper Websites In The Year 2000

December 3, 2010 by Dave Leave a Comment

Inspired by a post at blogTO, What Toronto-based newspaper websites looked like a decade ago, I thought it’d be amusing to see what Portland-based newspaper websites looked like in the year 2000.

OregonLive.com 5-December-2000
OregonLive.com, December 5 2000

I’ve joked that the OregonLive.com website hasn’t been updated since 1997, but actually, it has. We can easily confirm this, thanks to the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine.

The image above is a snapshot of what the OregonLive.com homepage looked like almost exactly 10 years ago, on December 5, 2000.

Willamette Week 4-December-2000

Willamette Week on December 4, 2000

Actually the Willamette Week, on December 4 2000 sported a splash screen. The page above is what you would see if you clicked on one of the splash screen links, and then clicked on the “home” image link on the top banner on the next page. User experience design has come a long way in the intervening years.

Portland Mercury 16-August-2000
Portland Mercury, August 15 2000

The Portland Mercury was relatively uncluttered on August 15 2000. Just as irreverent then as today though.

The PortlandTribune.com, in 2000, had begun publishing, but had a website “Under Construction”.

The old timers amongst you may remember the alternative weekly PDXS: The Pulse of Portland. The best I could find was this slick 1997 splash screen:

PDXS Splash Screen 1997

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