Gather 'round, everyone! It's time for the annual jaunt down the World Wide Web of yesteryear to see how the webmasters of CableLabs, Cisco and Netflix rolled back in the day.

Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor

December 23, 2020

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This Olde Website: 2020

Ah, holiday traditions. Sipping eggnog. Hanging stockings. Leaving cookies for Santa. Watching "A Christmas Story" on a loop on TNT. Embarking on a brief journey of the web of yesteryear.

About that last one… that nostalgic journey has become one of my annual traditions during my days with Light Reading. So, therefore, it's one of yours, too. Maybe. Perhaps. I hope.

As we all prepare to kiss 2020 good-freakin'-bye, it's once again time to kick back and click through a sojourn of the World Wide Web of yesteryear, courtesy of the Internet Archive's WayBackMachine.

So, please join me through another trek down memory lane as we glance back at some web pages from big names such as Netflix, Comcast and Cisco, some companies from somewhere in the middle, and a few that are long gone.

Click on the image below to get your journey started.

Figure 1: Netflix – Circa June 2010  Back when DVDs were still core to a Netflix service that was sold for a flat rate of $8.99 per month. Plus, delivery of the still-budding Netflix streaming library to a Wii console was a thing, though you'd need one of these nifty streaming discs to pull off the trick. Click here for a larger version of this image. Back when DVDs were still core to a Netflix service that was sold for a flat rate of $8.99 per month. Plus, delivery of the still-budding Netflix streaming library to a Wii console was a thing, though you'd need one of these nifty streaming discs to pull off the trick.
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And if you've got some ideas for the 2021 This Olde Website slideshow extravaganza, just drop me a line and I'll see what I can dig up.

Happy holidays!

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— Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading

About the Author(s)

Jeff Baumgartner

Senior Editor, Light Reading

Jeff Baumgartner is a Senior Editor for Light Reading and is responsible for the day-to-day news coverage and analysis of the cable and video sectors. Follow him on X and LinkedIn.

Baumgartner also served as Site Editor for Light Reading Cable from 2007-2013. In between his two stints at Light Reading, he led tech coverage for Multichannel News and was a regular contributor to Broadcasting + Cable. Baumgartner was named to the 2018 class of the Cable TV Pioneers.

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