The Web Design Museum

The first website was launched on 6th August 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. Websites were text-only to begin with, but it wasn’t long before they started to use graphics. The Web Design Museum collects examples of designs from 1995 onwards. 

CNN's home page in 1995
CNN’s home page in 1995. “Access the news by computer 24 hours a day”

 

You can browse by year, category, and style, as well as looking at timelines to see how the design of well-known websites such as Apple have changed over the years.

Apple's home page in 1998
Apple’s home page in 1998
Apple Home Page in 2017
Apple’s home page in 2017

The Web Design Museum doesn’t have any museum websites yet, so I took a look at one example in the Internet Archive: the British Museum. Its site started at an academic domain (british-museum.ac.uk, now defunct) before moving to its current address.

British Museum home page in 1998
British Museum home page in 1998
British Museum home page in 2018
British Museum home page in 2018

See also: Can a website be a museum?

(via Kottke)