Coolest web archive ever – wayback machine

This is so cool. By accident I found the web.archive.org website. It has web pages dating since 1996 from what I’ve found out reading the info available. It looks like it’s based on an open source web crawler called Heritrix. The list of contributors is huge and thanks to them we can now see how the internet was looking like 10 years ago. If you are an internet addict you’ll love this.

Pages available for a certain domain are chronologically ordered (years, months) and you can browse the whole website not just an index page.

I really REALLY recommend you to visit this website. It made me remember of my teenager period with Starcraft (lots of it) and unfortunately no internet.

For fun, this is how various big fishes used to look like not so many years ago.

Google webpage at Nov 11, 1998

Yahoo webpage at Oct 20, 1996

Blizzard webpage at Oct 19, 1996