Collecting technology changes - anyone have old Ebay screen pics.
ARCO
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In a recent thread, I took a screen snip and posted it to a thread. Screen snips in my experience have been around three or four years, although they were probably available much earlier.
As I posted the screen shot, it dawned on me how much web technology / UI, the PCGS chat boards and Ebay have changed over the years also. Back when I started on PCGS in 2002, a person had to set up an image hosting site (needed for Ebay also) in order to share or post photos.
That all got me reminiscing. Does anyone have any screen snips or saved photos of the old Ebay format from the late 1990's or early 2000's?
Thanks,
Tyler
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17 Jan 1999
The web archive (wayback machine) is a great tool to see what some of these sites looked like.
Here is one of the earliest eBay pages I can find.
And you can see more here:
http://web.archive.org/web/19990428232557/http://pages.ebay.com:80/aw/index.html
fantastic!! Thank you. I don't remember this format at all.
Tyler
http://www.capnwacky.com/eGad/main.html
@Hemispherical beat me to the punch by a minute
Used the one minute wayback to do it.
Ebay surely has changed a lot. What really surprises me the most is that many posters actually have screen pics. I really thought this request would stymie everyone.
Thank you for sharing.
Neither do I! But I'm sure others on here will recall those times.
Here's a thread I started about what CU looked like in 2000 (also before I was aware of online forums);
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1009744/it-s-2000-and-you-just-discovered#latest
I remember those days on ebay.... it was a great place then....There were really good deals to be found. I also remember the forum in the old days....never did take any 'shots' of either....Cheers, RickO