Interesting that this actually looks pretty similar to how it looks today. The large "headline" graphic, the smaller graphics in a row below it and then extra stuff at the bottom. Even the news page looks fairly similar to the default Safari page I recall when I first got my mac (with it's column style with stories on one side and important links on the other).
EDIT: Geez, it's still called "Hot News" and it's still a 2 column layout. That's actually a remarkable consistent design over 17 years.
I guess it's not surprising, but I was super impressed by their copy on the website. "The most original Macintosh since the original Macintosh" holds up really well 17 years later.
I'm looking forward to the iPhone 8 being advertised as "The most original iPhone since the original iPhone".
And many of the links still point to active pages.
But I miss ftp.apple.com (or was it ftp.info.apple.com? The later still exists though I can't remember any URLs and the root is 404.) They had all their technical documents online going back to the Apple II. Free developer tools and OS disk images. And private directories for employees to show off what they were working on at the time.
EDIT: Geez, it's still called "Hot News" and it's still a 2 column layout. That's actually a remarkable consistent design over 17 years.