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By Ryan Smith
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Taylor Swift's fans have been enjoying a moment of nostalgia, after a screen recording showing how her website looked in 2003 was unveiled online.
While "Shake It Off" hitmaker Swift, 34, rose to fame following the 2006 release of her eponymous album, it has been well documented that she worked at building her career as a recording artist from childhood.
Showing how far both her career and technology have come since her entrance into the celebrity world, @NostalgiaFolder, an account on X, formerly Twitter, gave fans an insight into how her website looked when she was an aspiring star.
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A teenage Swift is seen front and center on the website, with an autographed photo of the future pop icon serving as the main image.
In the screen recording, the singer's voice could be heard speaking as the mouse ran over various tabs at the top of the TaylorSwift.com homepage. On the "Thanks" tab, Swift told visitors to the page: "Thanks, you're the best."
"Pictures!" Swift exclaimed as the mouse ran over the "Photos" tab, while a visit to the "Schedule" section drew the reaction: "Come see what I'm doing." When rolling over the "Taylor Talk" section, Swift could be heard asking: "You wanna talk?" A welcoming "come on home" rang out when visiting the "Home" tab.
"POV: you're visiting Taylor Swift's website in 2003," read a caption on the post, which as of press time has garnered more than 200,000 views.
Newsweek has contacted a representative of Swift via email for comment.
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The post sparked a flood of messages from fans, one of whom wrote, "Mom! Get off the phone, I'm on the internet," in a nod to the dial-up days of web surfing.
Another said they "forgot that used to be a thing people would do to those button. So many sites would have someone talk to you."
One X user opined that "'90's and '00's websites were superior to the websites we have now in almost ever way," while another quipped: "Isn't this just the folksiest little thing you ever did see?"
Several others commented on the fact that they were unaware Swift was working on a singing career more than 20 years ago.
"I had no idea she has been around that long," read one comment. Said another: "This is so funny because I wasn't aware Taylor was even doing anything in 2003."
It would be a few more years until Swift became a household name. She is now a dominant force in the pop world and is seen as one its most influential figures. The singer-songwriter is currently on the European leg of her highly lucrative Eras Tour, which last year became the first ever tour to break the $1 billion barrier.
In April, Swift released her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poet's Department (TTPD). Within hours, TTPD started smashing streaming records, including becoming Spotify's most-streamed album in one day, with 300 million streams in 24 hours, the provider revealed on its social media.
The album recently claimed the top spot on the Billboard 200 album charts for the fourth week in a row. It is the first album to do so since Travis Scott's Utopia debuted at the top for four weeks straight from August 12, 2023, to September 2, 2023. TTPD is also the sixth album of Swift's to reach No. 1 on the album charts.
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