I’ve been looking at the Internet Archives ‘Wayback machine‘. The Internet Archive has been archiving the web since 1996 and has snapshots of every webpage that has existed in that time. The wayback machine can show you all the different variations of a particular URL. Its really interesting to see what sites looked like back in the days when the web wasn’t really the web we know. This shows a really interesting map of a particular URL and how it has been used over a period of time. Take a look at the entries that were found when I searched against google (there were thousands!) and also the prototype google page back in 1998.