Template for your website

I think for any website template/design plays very important role. The links mentioned below will give you the 1000's of free templates.
http://www.oswd.org/
http://www.freewebtemplates.com/
http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/

So what are you waiting for? Download the template of your interest and make your website look much better.

Websites in history

Checkout how google used to look in past...
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.google.com

For checking the other websites you just need to change the name of the site.
Ex: For yahoo you need to change the url as
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.yahoo.com