Daily Post by Nick » WayBack Machine http://dailypost.nicksimard.com A post a day keeps writer's block away Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:44:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Wednesday.Website || WayBack Machine: Historical Internet http://dailypost.nicksimard.com/2009/10/14/wednesday-website-wayback-machine-historical-internet/ http://dailypost.nicksimard.com/2009/10/14/wednesday-website-wayback-machine-historical-internet/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:41:32 +0000 Nick http://dailypost.nicksimard.com/?p=693 For anyone who has grown up using the Internet, it is sometimes fun to think of what it once was. Remember when Hotmail wasn’t owned by Microsoft? What about how absolutely horrid everything used to look 10 years ago? On the other hand, some sites haven’t changed all that much. Maybe you used to have a website way back in the day, and you’d like to find it again. I’m not sure how this works, but just try entering a website and see if there are any snapshots of it from the past.

*Hat tip to my sister-in-law, Jeni, for telling me about this.

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Some Stuff I Searched


Hotmail Pre-Microsoft (December 1997)

Wow, do you remember when it looked like this?

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YouTube (June 2005)

I wasn’t even into YouTube when it looked like this. Were you?

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Facebook (January 2006)

I vaguely remember this. I was a late adopter of Facebook, but eventually succumbed.

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CNN’s Site on 9/11/2001

Eerie, isn’t it? Seeing it as it was that day.

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