Today google has a birthday. It’s 12 years old to be precise. So we wish many more years to the “Oh-not-so-evil” corporation that has revolutionized search among other things and we try to remember what was before google. In case you don’t remember check out the shots below for a brief history lesson. If you do remember these it’s gonna be a trip to nostalgia-land along with snes consoles and websites with sprite-flame-gifs. Back then we even had “back arrows” on the site for navigation even though browsers had a “back” button. Oh those were the days! ;)

HotBot and Altavista ruled unquestionably in the times of the NetScape browser (now dead) and the very first iterations of Internet Explorer.