This is what today’s popular websites look like on the 1st generation iPhone

Luc Luxton
HackerNoon.com
4 min readJan 11, 2016

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January 9, 2016, marked 9 years since Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at the Macworld Expo. I can remember watching the keynote in amazement and realizing that the product being announced was going to change everything.

Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone — Steve Jobs

I received a 1st generation iPhone as a birthday gift last year from a good friend of mine and I really haven’t done much with it. I started wondering if the phone could be used day-to-day if needed and if so, what the experience would be like today.

iPhone (1st Gen) on left, iPhone 6s Plus on right

So, I thought it might be fun to have a look at what the most popular websites today look like on that incredibly revolutionary device.

A couple quick notes: The 1st generation iPhone I have is running the latest available version of iOS for the device, iOS 3.1.3. Both phones were connected to a home wi-fi network.

So, let’s have a look at medium.com

Left: iPhone (1st gen) — 32.97 sec load time, Right: iPhone 6s Plus- <1 sec load time

It’s actually not bad. Except for a few missing elements like the search icon in the upper right…

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Luc Luxton
HackerNoon.com

Technology. Photography. Travel. Director of Sales @ Rose Rocket