What Would Wikipedia Look Like If It Were Made In The 1980s?

What Would Wikipedia Look Like If It Were Made In The 1980s?

Remember when "Paris Hilton" was just a hotel, or when "cellular phones" were better known as "car phone"?

That's what you would have found if you searched Wikipedia in the 1980s. Of course, the online encyclopedia that would balloon into the Internet's seventh largest website was only created in 2001. But in a recent video, YouTube user SquirrelMonkeyCom offered a retro reimagining of the site if it had been created two decades earlier.

SquirrelMonkeyCom has a trove of wonderful 8-bit versions of popular websites and online services: Spotify, Skype, Twitter... Check out the slideshow below to see all the '80s versions of today's websites:

What Today's Popular Websites Would Have Looks Like In The 1980s

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