Throwback Thursday: What websites do you look up on oldweb.today? #TBT

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It's Thursday!

You guys probably know about this but there are couple of sites that take snapshots of web pages. Archive.org and Oldweb.today. I really like the latter because you can choose the browser to view the page in :) Navigator 4 on Win, here I come!!!

Soooo, what websites do you look up on these "time machines"?

Let’s make it a great Thursday!

KGM

[Dan Breyen]

Ahh, I've tried archive.org, but not oldweb.  Maybe have to go look up somethings on the old yahoo search pages!

[John Funk]

Never knew these existed. Besides, I lived through all of those  haha

[Andy Gladstone]

I prefer the current state of the web in Chrome browser. Just looking at the geocities.com site I brought up on oldweb brought back memories of slow web connections and click and wait sessions.

[Dan Breyen]

I was dreaming when I wrote this so sue \me if I go to fast.

Cause Life is just a party and parties weren't meant to last.

2000 0 0 party over oops out of time.

So tonight I'm gonna browse like it's 1999.

[Jack Brickey]

 How did I not know about these sites. 😳

you learn something new every day!

[Ram Kumar Aravindakshan _Adaptavist_]

I've tried Alta-Vista and Cnet new on Archive.org

[Dave Mathijs]

That would be the website I used to run from 2000 till 2013: FordEurope.net, an independent portal site about Ford in Europe with news, pictures, club directories, dealer sites, wallpapers, a forum ...

In the beginning, it used to be hosted at GeoCities. As I didn't have an IT education (I graduated as management assistant), I learned HTML during my night shifts at IBM while working at the 24/7 call center/helpdesk and gradually learned to build a basic site, not even using CSS.

Later on, I moved to WordPress and finally to SubDreamer CMS in combination with a phpBB forum.

Calling yourself a "webmaster" was the thing... 🙄😂

[Amanda Barber]

Woah, I never knew these existed. Brings back memories of this...can almost hear the sound... :-D 

[Lacy Saute]

Oh cool! I hadn't used these sites before but I'll be poking around now. :)

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

My go to has always been The Way Back Machine  https://web.archive.org/

I'm not sure I have a regular site I look up, but I usually use this to research older companies or websites from acquired companies.  Like what was that tool called before Atlassian bought them?

[Barbara Szczesniak]

I also never heard of these before, but I just wasted spent 10 minutes crashing Navigator and feeling old🙃

[Laurie Sciutti]

Learned something new today!  And @Amanda Barber ~ I definitely heard your meme!  hahaha

[Summer Hogan]

Great question @Kristján Geir Mathiesen, but I had no ideas these existed and really don't want to relive those days of horrible websites that were difficult to navigate. Looking at the image you have above though makes me happy that technology has come so far! 

[Vronik]

Hi

I didn't even remember that they existed, thanks for bringing it up, I'll check it out.
Thank you so much for sharing this kind of stuff

Happy Thursday everyone

[Liz Tanner]

1. Angelfire

2. Geocities - I still have a site here memorized where I pirated the entire Star Wars soundtrack... in MIDI. If I can access the site still, I'll post the link. I am 100% the 3 1/2 in. floppies survive in my parent's office in OKC.

3. Altavist, search Myst and Riven walkthrough - If someone ever won Riven without a guide, I fear you. I respect you, but I also fear you.

[carolyn french]

I always use the Way Back Machine too for this type of "research", although I haven't in a while. Guess the world's moving too fast to go back! although now I'm curious to go check out sites I'd worked on in the very far past....

Hope you had a GREAT Thursday! @Kristján Geir Mathiesen 

[Andy Gladstone]

@Liz Tanner if you find those MIDI versions of the Star Wars soundtrack, please, please share!

[Kristján Geir Mathiesen]

You guys rock! Thanks for positive and fun comments. Lots of love all around!

And @Dan Breyen , good one!

[Ncumisa Booi]

Archive i have never tried but oldweb yes But I love the new browsing experience.

[Emmanuel.A]

Tony Hawk, skatepark

[Ingo Volkhausen]

I have examined our company's websites. The content was already fine in the past :-)

[Tomasz Kowalczyk]

i knew archive, but oldweb.today is pretty cool! thanks

[Dustin Smith (K15t)]

Geocities for sure. Also, the classic Space Jam website in all its 1996 glory: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

[vikram]

it is cool, i do not know about these sities 

thanks for sharing @Kristján Geir Mathiesen