Take a trip way back to what websites used to look like

EVER wondered what your favourite websites used to look like? Wonder no more. Here’s how you can see the internet of yesteryear.

Check out those cool new people. Look forward to meeting you Roy and Chad. (August 16, 2004)

EVER wondered what your favourite websites used to look like? Wonder no more.

There’s a site you can go to called the Wayback Machine, and while you internet cool kids may have heard of it already, lots of people haven’t.

Basically, the site saves snapshots of different websites at different points in time. Those are then stored in a big database which you can access just by searching for the site you want and the date you want to look at (if they have a snapshot on file).

The end output will be a saved snapshot at the site from that date. It might be missing a few photos, but you get the idea. Below, threw together a few the internet’s biggest sites for you to check out.

Back when ye old Google was just in its beta phase. (January 17, 1999)

Hey, Yahoo, got any links? (April 7, 2000)

I wonder if Candice ever stopped arguing with Frank? (November 18, 2006)

The food photographer? So not much has changed about the internet then. (July 14, 2004)

Check out those cool new people. Look forward to meeting you Roy and Chad. (August 16, 2004)

Wikipedia looks practically identical. (July 14, 2004)