Wayback Machine

WayBack Machine

What is the WayBack Machine?

The WayBack Machine is a tool created by a non-profit organization called Internet Archive,  founded by Brewster Kahle.  It was created based on a cartoon episode,  in which the main character used a time machine called the WABAK.  The purpose of the site is to show you what the certain websites used to look back way back in the day.  Below are three examples.

MSN

1996:

2014:

The biggest change I see is color.  They went from a pukey yellow green to a nice looking blue.  There are also a lot more pictures used to advertise each article.  The logo looks a lot nicer than the previous one.

Apple

1996:

2014:

The biggest change I see here are the use of pictures.  The pictures are a lot bigger and are used to really make the site pop out.

MySpace

1996:

2014:

Ha, this one changed a lot.  While MySpace is still outdated even today,  there are still dramatic differences between the new one and the old one.  The old one's header is just MySpace.com over and over again...  It's almost as if they just learned a new trick and decided to use it over and over again because it was cool.  The new one,  however,  actually looks somewhat decent.  It looks more organized and easier to navigate and less of an eyesore.