The Window to the Web’s Past

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The World Wide Web is an amazing and dynamic mixture of sites covering nearly every imaginable topic. The dynamic nature of the Web also means that a site you viewed a year or two ago may very well look different today. If what you really need to see is the yester-year version of a Web page, Internet Archiveis Wayback Machine can get you there.


Enter a URL into the Wayback Machine...

Entering a URL into the Wayback Machineis Take Me Back field gets you a list of every archived version of the Web site. Just click the date of the version you want to see, and away you go.


... and jump back in time.

In this example, I entered www.macobserver.com into the Wayback Machine, and was able to see what TMO looked like back in January 1999.

Looking beyond the nostalgic value of the Wayback Machine, itis also useful for research and finding Web sites that no longer exist (dot com boom, anyone?).


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Jeff Gamet

Jeff Gamet

Jeff is the Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and co-host of the Apple Context Machine podcast. He is the author of "The Designer's Guide to Mac OS X" from Peachpit Press, and writes for several design-related publications. Jeff has presented at events such as Macworld Expo, the RSA Conference, and the Mac Computer Expo. In all his spare time, he also co-hosts the We Have Communicators podcast, and makes guest appearances on several other podcasts, too. Jeff dreams in HD.

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