What 20 popular websites looked like at launch
telegraph.co.uk
telegraph.co.uk
Here's a similar article with an older one: http://rosshill.com.au/big-websites-start-small/ (second from the top).
Amazon has hardly changed. Wow, it already looked great back then!
And Apple ... um ... really has gone a long way in design since then. Phew, that Apple page was ugly!
Amazon did surprise me though. Well done Amazon. Well Done.