<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>How 20 popular websites looked when they launched : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://technology.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>132303</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/132303/1/</url><title><![CDATA[How 20 popular websites looked when they launched]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Google to youtube, from craigslist to flickr - how some of today's biggest sites looked back in the early days of their existence.<br/><br/>*New sites added since <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/76571/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">This</a>]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>187</score><crdate>9/3/2009 3:05:06 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-03T15:05:06+01:00</atomdate></link><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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We still wouldn't except an article on amazon.com, google.com, or similar.<br/><br/>The article doesn't change that it is about something that most already know of.<br/><br/>It has been posted:<br/><div style='display:block;width:250px;text-overflow:clip;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/76571/1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/l/76571/1/</a></div> <br/><div style='display:block;width:250px;text-overflow:clip;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/58003/1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/l/58003/1/</a></div> <br/><div style='display:block;width:250px;text-overflow:clip;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/43309/1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/l/43309/1/</a></div> <br/><div style='display:block;width:250px;text-overflow:clip;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/33105/1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/l/33105/1/</a></div> <br/><br/>It has been posted and deleted more than once besides the ones listed above.]]></content><score></score><crdate>9/3/2009 5:42:57 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-03T17:42:57+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>515882</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/l/132303/1/xml_widget.rss#q7</url><title><![CDATA[drogue @ 9/3/2009 5:20:14 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/l/132303/1/#q6"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>Ankabout</b>&#160;:&#160;Heh, didn't say it was you, and now that I checked the karma levels, I think I was a bit quick on accusing bernard as well (sorry bernard). Was more a general statement anyways. Someone downvoted it though.</i></div>Dogpile on Bernard Black!]]></content><score></score><crdate>9/3/2009 5:20:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-03T17:20:14+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>515877</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/l/132303/1/xml_widget.rss#q6</url><title><![CDATA[Ankabout @ 9/3/2009 5:10:15 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/l/132303/1/#q5"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>drogue</b>&#160;:&#160;For the record, I never downvoted a thing!  Just thought it was funny a commenter saw an angle.</i></div>Heh, didn't say it was you, and now that I checked the karma levels, I think I was a bit quick on accusing bernard as well (sorry bernard). Was more a general statement anyways. Someone downvoted it though.]]></content><score></score><crdate>9/3/2009 5:10:15 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-03T17:10:15+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>515873</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/l/132303/1/xml_widget.rss#q5</url><title><![CDATA[drogue @ 9/3/2009 5:05:50 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/l/132303/1/#q4"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>Ankabout</b>&#160;:&#160;This is an actual article, that also links to the waybackmachine. It has screenshots from a number of popular sites, and a little story that adds to it. Though it's not the coolest thing I've seen on here today, it's definately worthy of being here, and doesn't deserve a downvote (IMHO).</i></div>For the record, I never downvoted a thing!  Just thought it was funny a commenter saw an angle.]]></content><score></score><crdate>9/3/2009 5:05:50 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-03T17:05:50+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>515847</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/l/132303/1/xml_widget.rss#q4</url><title><![CDATA[Ankabout @ 9/3/2009 4:28:28 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/l/132303/1/#q3"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>bernardblack</b>&#160;:&#160;the wayback machine, archive.org is very well known. You might as well as point to amazon.com as a place to shop.</i></div>This is an actual article, that also links to the waybackmachine. It has screenshots from a number of popular sites, and a little story that adds to it. Though it's not the coolest thing I've seen on here today, it's definately worthy of being here, and doesn't deserve a downvote (IMHO).]]></content><score></score><crdate>9/3/2009 4:28:28 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-03T16:28:28+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>515835</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/l/132303/1/xml_widget.rss#q3</url><title><![CDATA[bernardblack @ 9/3/2009 4:11:40 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[the wayback machine, archive.org is very well known. You might as well as point to amazon.com as a place to shop.]]></content><score></score><crdate>9/3/2009 4:11:40 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-03T16:11:40+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>515796</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/l/132303/1/xml_widget.rss#q2</url><title><![CDATA[drogue @ 9/3/2009 3:26:45 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[From the comments:<br/><br/><div class='qp pad d'><i>Bravo<br/><br/>You spent 20 minutes on the wayback machine.<br/><br/>I'm going to see what the failblog looked like when it started.</i></div>Hilarious.]]></content><score></score><crdate>9/3/2009 3:26:45 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-03T15:26:45+01:00</atomdate></comment></items></xml>