I love to randomly read articles from the NYTimes and so I consider this to be a website that I like. I traced nytimes.com to 1996. In 1996, the website looked very plain and it’s my least favorite because it doesn’t even catch my eye. It has one little picture and the font is small. It’s just really unattractive! I would not have visited this website in 1996.This is how the NYTimes website looked in 1996:
How NYTimes.com looked in 1996
It got better in 2006. There are actually more words on the screen and actual links but I still don’t like this one too much because there are barely any pictures and that catches my eye on a website. Here is how it looked in 2006:
This is my favorite version of the NYTimes website because it has more pictures, videos and several links to different things, including advertisements. This website is more interactive than the others and it grabs my attention right away. In the 1996 one there was barely any differences in the text sizes and it’s just boring to look at period. Here is how it looks now in April of 2013: