This is what 9 of the world's most popular websites looked like when they launched

Web design has improved a lot since the birth of the internet.

Long gone are the pixellated and cluttered monstrosities of the HTML era.

Many of today's most successful websites bear only a minute resemblance of how they used to look when they were first launched. Look at Facebook.

Here, New York-based designer Robert Morris of Ninja Essays put together a graphic of 9 of the most famous sites on the internet, and compared them with how they looked when they were first launched.