Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

Ever wonder what your company's website looked like in the year 2000?  Or perhaps an eager web developer deleted the old site without making a backup, and your boss wants his old bio picture back (after all, didn't we all look that much cooler in the 90's).  Either way, the Wayback Machine might just be the answer for you.

Created by the non-profit organization, Internet Archive, the Wayback Machine enables users to access archived versions of the web pages dating back to the mid 90's, simply by entering the website's URL.

Now you would never want to rely on the Wayback Machine to replace your own internal backups.  On smaller sites there may be only one or two instances of the site in the archive, and most archives are incomplete.  Still, if you're only interested in pulling off the old text, look, and some of the graphics of the old site, it may be just the thing.

And, just for the sake of history, here's Apple, circa 1997 - around the time Steve Jobs was just coming back as CEO:

And here's the same website a year later:

Coincidence?