Wayback Machine—an Internet time machine

— letting you see what website looks like in the past

If I were a character living in a science fiction world, I would want to have a time machine and go back to the past. I just felt like there were so many beautiful things in the past that I had ignored and I wanted to cherish them once more

A causal poem that is written by myself

Sorry for the little poetic (and crappy) statement above as a conversation starter. Today I just want to quickly recommend a tool website I recently discovered and enjoyed. It is called Wayback Machine, which is basically a time machine for the Internet.

Wayback Machine is a website that has archived more than 306 billion Word Wide Web websites ever since 1996. It is really easy to navigate: input the URL, click “Browser History” and choose a date, then you will see what the website looks like in your selected date. Here are two examples:

Apple 2007 June 30th
Apple’s website on June 29th, 2007 when Apple released the 1st generation of iPhone
NY Times on November 4, 2008 when Barack Obama won the presidential election

Everyone can become the Three-eyed Raven in the digital world with the help of Wayback Machine

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because of Wayback Machine

 

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