Way back machine to see how websites used to look like in the past

During the last decade if there is anything that has grown more rapidly than anything else, it's INTERNET. Since 1990 it has grown with such a rapid pace and it's still growing. Now during this course of time a lot of things came into existence out of which some have already become an integral part of our daily life like Google, Facebook. While some are now not visible these days even after getting a lot of popularity one big example is Orkut. While Google started in 1996 and Facebook in 2004, but they were completely different at that point of time from what we are seeing these days.

Google - December 1998

While the journey is quite interesting because the big giants of today like Google, Facebook actually started of with very basic features and  design and if you compare it with the current one you might not be able to believe after comparing the two which is actually quite logical as the new things does start of with something small and over the time they become big and some deplete completely over the years. One can make whole new album if we start taking snapshots of all the changes that has happened in the giants over the years.

Well now you would think that how nice it would be if you have some sort of time machine or way back machine to see exactly how different websites evolved during the years. Well, the good news is that there is a way back machine for you to do that. Yes there is an Internet archive site that actually has the screen shots of websites at to how they looked a like in the past. So, if you are curious enough to know your website or some other web page's past then follow these simple steps -

1) Click on the link http://archive.org/web/

2) Enter name of the website.

3) Now hit "BROWSE HISTORY" button

4) Select the year on top.

5) Now select any one of the blue circled date which is nothing but the date when the archive.org has taken the snapshot of the given website whereas you can see whole month as blue these days for websites like Google since there snapshot is being taken a lot more then some other small websites.

New York Times - December 1996

After comparing the current design with previous designs you will realize the continuity of time changes everything. It's just like an archive that we maintain of our dearer one's with decade old snaps. It's a great tool that gives an example for the saying 'Change is inevitable but progress is optional'. While some sites grown up to a level where they are today and some are unfortunately not available today.