The Wayback Machine internet archive

Have you ever wondered what the internet looked like10 years ago?

There’s a website that has archived internet content back as early as 1996. It’s called the Wayback Machine: see it here.

Just plug in the URL of any website, and see what it looked like at a particular point in time. Here are a few examples (you can click on the image to see it full size).

Microsoft.com from the early 2000s:

I actually remember when Yahoo looked like this:

And Google has not changed a whole lot: