Here’s what Google would’ve looked like had it been a BBS in the 80’s April 13, 2012 - 8:43 pm Before there was HTML5, Flash, and even web browsers, there was the wonder that is the BBS.

It outlined how to create Web pages and explained more about hypertext. Here's what it looked like in 1992 (below). No screenshots were taken of the site before then.

My point is that I just watched this parody of what Amazon might have looked like in the ’80s, and it seems a lot more user-friendly than the real thing. I’m not kidding.