Much as the business world is rapidly changing, so too does web design, which is something that is only possible through the use of adjustable, adaptable wordpress themes and templates.

These rapid evolutions are designed to make websites that are easily and ideally viewed by everyone, from people scanning on a mobile phone, to power users on ultra-wide monitors and search engine algorithms that can pick out the best content for SEO purposes.

This was obviously not always the case. Until 2021, the Space Jam website served as a breakwater against the passage of time, maintaining its 1996 HTML frames design for 25 years.

However, perhaps the ultimate example of how websites were treated at the very start of the internet age was the home page of Interrupt Technology Corporation, first registered on 18th September 1986.

This does not make it the first web page ever created, but it is the oldest that is still functional, at least in the sense that typing the web page loads it up.

The oldest domain ever registered was symbolics.com (now a parked domain) on 15th March 1985. 

Symbolics was a LISP computer manufacturer that designed machines for the AI market of the early 1980s, ultimately collapsing when both the LISP machine and AI market collapsed in the late 1980s. There is no surviving evidence of the old Symbolics website or even if it was ever used by the original company.

Interrupt Technology Corporation took a unique approach to its website that could be described as “anti-marketing”. As a small software consulting firm based in Claremont, California, Interrupt Technology Corporation did not feel like it needed to market.

As such, they were rather annoyed by the idea that in order to have an email address with the company’s domain name, they also needed a website, so they had perhaps the most rudimentary business website ever created.

Ironically enough, it did generate interest with its counterproductive approach, although given that the company no longer exists as of 2003, it probably did not capitalise.

In today's digital age, a website is your brand's storefront window to the world. But for many, crafting a website can feel intimidating. Fear not! Website templates offer a fantastic way to get a beautiful, functional site up and running quickly and easily.

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