Were you on the Net in the '90s? This photo gallery takes a look back at the first home pages for some of today's largest search engines, along with those that have passed on.

The new kid on the block for search engines is Cuil. But search engines have been around as long as the Internet. Here's a look back at some of the first home pages of search engines that are still around today, and some that have passed on.
The images you see on the following pages come from The Wayback Machine.
Here's the home page of Cuil, the newest search engine which claims to have the largest Web index on the planet.
Credit: The Wayback Machine








looksmart? I'm sure there's a guy in parliament who made his money out of it before the dotcom crash