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<rss xmlns:ps="http://trailfire.com" version="2.0"><channel><title>"Take a trip with eBay from 1997 to now" by goodstuff</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/goodstuff/trails/24550</link><category>goodstuff/trails</category><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>eBay in 1997</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/goodstuff/marks/48839</link><description><![CDATA[Ever wonder what eBay looked like in it&#39;s early days? Thanks to the WayBackMachine, it&#39;s easy.<BR><BR>This is what eBay looked like in 1997. I appreciate the whole minimalistic look. Heh.<BR><BR><BR>Curious to see what Google, eBay, AOL and Digg used to look like? Check them out here:<BR><A HREF="http://trailfire.com/goodstuff/trails/24599">AOL</A><BR><A HREF="http://trailfire.com/goodstuff/trails/24542">DIGG</A><BR><A HREF="http://trailfire.com/goodstuff/trails/24538">Google</A><BR><A HREF="http://trailfire.com/goodstuff/trails/24550">eBay</A><BR><A HREF="http://trailfire.com/goodstuff/trails/24532">Yahoo</A>!<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>eBay was founded September 3, 1995, and originally started out as AuctionWeb.<BR>For the history of that site, check out http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://auctionweb.com.<BR><BR>Next: eBay gets colorful<BR>]]></description><category>Take a trip with eBay from 1997 to now</category><author>goodstuff</author><pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 06:21:48 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:48839</guid></item><item><title>eBay in 1997</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/goodstuff/marks/48845</link><description><![CDATA[My favorite part of eBay in 1997 is how Toys &amp; Beanies is a full blown category. That&#39;s one step away from giving pogs a category.<BR><BR><BR>]]></description><category>Take a trip with eBay from 1997 to now</category><author>goodstuff</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:45:05 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:48845</guid></item><item><title>eBay 1999</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/goodstuff/marks/48846</link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is extremely different at first glance. However, I image the site was updated extensively for Y2K.<BR>]]></description><category>Take a trip with eBay from 1997 to now</category><author>goodstuff</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:46:35 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:48846</guid></item><item><title>eBay 2000</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/goodstuff/marks/48848</link><description><![CDATA[This is Google after the apocalypse of Y2K.<BR>]]></description><category>Take a trip with eBay from 1997 to now</category><author>goodstuff</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:47:21 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:48848</guid></item><item><title>eBay 2001</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/goodstuff/marks/48849</link><description><![CDATA[In 2001, eBay features such hot items as printer ink and baseball cards. Baseball cards.<BR>]]></description><category>Take a trip with eBay from 1997 to now</category><author>goodstuff</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:48:31 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:48849</guid></item><item><title>eBay 2002</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/goodstuff/marks/48851</link><description><![CDATA[This is what eBay looked like in 2002. Plush toy section is gone, baseball cards are less prevalent. On the other hand, the featured items give an even better look at the times. For instance, one of the featured items is &quot;The Secret of Overcoming Verbal Abuse&quot;. 2002 was a rough year.<BR>]]></description><category>Take a trip with eBay from 1997 to now</category><author>goodstuff</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:50:12 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:48851</guid></item><item><title>eBay 2003</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/goodstuff/marks/48853</link><description><![CDATA[This is what eBay looked like in 2003. It&#39;s too bad the images aren&#39;t available. I bet someone out there has them, too. Somewhere on cached on a computer they don&#39;t use... just a thought.<BR>]]></description><category>Take a trip with eBay from 1997 to now</category><author>goodstuff</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:51:25 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:48853</guid></item><item><title>eBay in 2004</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/goodstuff/marks/48854</link><description><![CDATA[Understanding the complications of bidding how to pay for things with internet moneys, eBay lays it out for us on their front page.<BR>]]></description><category>Take a trip with eBay from 1997 to now</category><author>goodstuff</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:52:14 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:48854</guid></item><item><title>eBay in 2005</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/goodstuff/marks/48855</link><description><![CDATA[This is what eBay looked like in 2005. Not much to say about that.<BR>]]></description><category>Take a trip with eBay from 1997 to now</category><author>goodstuff</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:52:46 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:48855</guid></item><item><title>eBay in 2006</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/goodstuff/marks/48856</link><description><![CDATA[Last but not least, this is what Google looked like waayyyy back in 2006. Surely that doesn&#39;t seem like that long ago, but in Internet time that&#39;s like 8 years.<BR><BR>Stay tuned next time when I exhibit my own site, The Way Forward Machine where I display what I think sites will (or should) look like in the future.<BR>]]></description><category>Take a trip with eBay from 1997 to now</category><author>goodstuff</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:54:16 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:48856</guid></item></channel></rss>
