Monday, October 29, 2012

Way Back Machine

Fancy to glimpse at a web site appearance some years ago?
I mean: how it was looking some months, or years ago?

Then head to http://archive.org and enter the web site to play with into the address bar,



click on the "Take Me Back" button. You will then be presented with a timeline on the upper part of the window, and a calendar below.


On the timeline, every vertical bar means that a snapshot has been taken. Click on a year, then chose which date you want to get back to.

On the displayed page, there is an area near the top of the window that you can use to scroll between snapshots.

Not only the first page (the home page) is archived, but all the site's content, except "attached" files (e.g.,  a PDf document that the visitor had to manually download).

Funny to flight back in the past and seeing how a site improved its design over time.

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