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Due: Recommended by Monday, 5.21
The Internet of Yesteryear
The Wayback Machine allows you to see what certain websites looked like at different points in history. This may not be the best resource for learning how to code a website, but it does allow you to get a sense for how a company may have viewed their brand over time, how the web used to look, or retrieve information from the past that is no longer live. It’s also the coolest way to spend a Saturday night.
The resource is the Internet Archives Wayback Machine. For example, let’s look at the history of www.umt.edu.
At the moment I took this picture, the page tells us, there have been 2024 snap shots taken of this site since the Internet archive began, dating from Feb. 19, 1997 to Feb. 01, 2017.
I am going to select the year 2000, and the date June 16th, 2000.
That shows us what the University of Montana’s main site looked like at that moment in history. Definitely has a retro feel now, especially with that logo graphic.
Some other great examples include: