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		swores on Dec 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Facebook, Google+ and YouTube would have look... It says Google+ not Google. That said, the 1998 version of Google looked much, much better than their mocked up 1997 version of Google+.

ivankirigin on Dec 10, 2011 [–]

Yeah you're right. I'd be interested in seeing some designers at these companies build something using only the layout and styling tools supported by most browsers of the day.

dasil003 on Dec 10, 2011 | [–]

Me too, but to be fair, cellspacing="0" was well understood by serious web designers at the time in contrast with these examples.

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