Stephen Byrne's tweet yesterday showing a screengrab of the original Late Late Show website in 1996 has inspired us to delve into the great cauldron of internet history that is archive.org's Way Back Machine.

Here's what eight random Irish websites looked like aaaaages ago.

rte.ie (1997)

rte.ie

aib.ie (1999)

aib.ie

The Den 2 (2000)

independent.ie (early 2000s)

independent.ie

boards.ie (2000)

boards.ie

The Late Late Show (1996)

rte.ie/tv/latelate Image: @3sixty5days

TV3 (2000)

tv3.ie

Daft.ie (1999)

daft.ie