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Easy way to see old versions of websites Wayback in Time

A lot of people don’t know that there is an internet history time machine capturing pages from websites in its data archives that you can access for free. Enter a website url and use their calendar to find the dates that the site was archived and access the historic content. You can also request that they capture your site now so you have it for future reference. It really is fun to go back in time (but you can’t change it).

Screen Shot from Archive.org Search Box

Below you can see something that was captured on the internet back in 2002
http://web.archive.org/web/20020601091620/http://riverrockchurch.com/pastor.htm

Chris Teien Way Back in time before 2001
Way Back Machine – my church pastor page captured back in 2002
Wayback Machine Internet Archive

The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web and other information on the Internet created by the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization, based in San Francisco, California. – Wikipedia

Here is a quick video that shows the Wayback Machine at Work