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What did the internet look like before the dotcom bubble burst? Here's a look at the blocky, link-filled homepages of Apple, Amazon, and Geocities in 1999.

In Tales of the Early Internet, Mashable explores online life through 2007 — back before social media and the smartphone changed everything. The year was 1999: Cher's "Believe" was blasting on pop radio stations, Bill Clinton was impeached, Jar Jar Binks hit the Big Screen, and the beep, beep, static of dial-up internet echoed in family rooms across the globe. The World Wide Web was still young then — gawky, awkward, and painfully slow. The dot-com bubble was still growing, on the cusp of bursting. The public had been using the internet for under a decade and those making on...

Early Internet pioneers such as Lawrence Lessig, Tim Berners Lee and John Perry Barlow imagined a “new frontier of the mind” free from the encumbrances

The Capitol Hill Block Party's 25th-anniversary lineup features headliners Louis the Child, Sofi Tukker, Denzel Curry, and PinkPantheress.