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Classic Internet: A Wayback Trip Down Internet Memory Lane
With the Internet ever-expanding and constantly moving forward, it's easy to forget how websites have changed or even which ones have disappeared. So, when you do decide to look back into the history of the World Wide Web, there is a place to go to revisit "old" (or, if you prefer, "Classic" or "Retro") websites.
It's called the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and it's actually a pretty cool thing to check out. Take a look for yourself at the yearly changes of Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon and many, many others. It might help you understand how certain sites became successful and why others failed. Often, the design and ease of the site explains the entire story.
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine now has 55 billion archived web pages -- the largest one-stop permanent web archive out there, going back to 1996.
posted by Unknown @ Wednesday, February 08, 2006,
