Going back in time on the internet

master m · Post by **master m** » 14 Jan 2006, 13:49

I present to every one "The Internet Archive".
I assume some people might know it already, but I thought it might be fun.

All you need to do is click this link and type the url you want to see.
http://www.archive.org/

Not all websites work, obviously. But they do have 40.000.000.000.000 pages that DO work

:shock: (that's 40 billion)

This is how NFSUnlimited.net looked 4 years ago
http://web.archive.org/web/200011180542 ... mited.net/

and a screenshot.

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 14 Jan 2006, 15:17

When I first came here it wasn't like that!

Thats... scary

BTW this is how everything looked like when I joined:

http://web.archive.org/web/200308061427 ... mited.net/

Dizzi · Post by **Dizzi** » 14 Jan 2006, 15:32

huh? wtf? that nfs site woz so wierd

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 14 Jan 2006, 15:43

And your Ali G is weird...

Dizzi · Post by **Dizzi** » 14 Jan 2006, 15:57

Stereo wrote:And your Ali G is weird...

wot do u mean?

Pinecone · Post by **Pinecone** » 14 Jan 2006, 16:08

Stereo wrote: When I first came here it wasn't like that! Thats... scary

BTW this is how everything looked like when I joined:

http://web.archive.org/web/200308061427 ... mited.net/

l remember that all the way back in 03'!! I was looking for NFS:HS cars and this site had the best archive. I didnt realize it was still the best NFS site on the net until U2.

^Sparco^ · Post by **^Sparco^** » 14 Jan 2006, 16:16

OMG I remember this is the 1st thing I saw when I joined the site:

NFS will include pedestrians!

http://web.archive.org/web/200404100006 ... ted.net/#4

April 2004 hehe.

Pinecone · Post by **Pinecone** » 14 Jan 2006, 16:22

Bojan's old name is bobyx?

99k · Post by **99k** » 14 Jan 2006, 16:39

Ha im in my old nfsu2 garage.

ancient digimods
http://web.archive.org/web/200212071552 ... l-cars.htm

Abrams · Post by **Abrams** » 14 Jan 2006, 17:21

Pinecone wrote:Bojan's old name is bobyx?

yes

The red alien!

Andre_online · Post by **Andre_online** » 14 Jan 2006, 20:03

Hmm, interesting site! Anyways, I was curious to know how Google looked like. So I came across this..

korge · Post by **korge** » 14 Jan 2006, 20:29

Andre_online wrote:Hmm, interesting site! Anyways, I was curious to know how Google looked like. So I came across this..

that was the first thing I checked as to I was curious at the time. I still found that interesting though. Beta. Hehe.

99k · Post by **99k** » 14 Jan 2006, 20:48

Hmm i also wanted to know what google was like. When it was laucnched there was only 4 employees.
You can get onto sr2 and 1 by using archive.org

xHaZxMaTx · Post by **xHaZxMaTx** » 15 Jan 2006, 03:52

master m wrote:40.000.000.000.000 pages that DO work (that's 40 billion)

Wrong, that's 40 trillion.

Dragster · Post by **Dragster** » 15 Jan 2006, 12:21

40.000.000 -> 40 one million
40.000.000.000.000 -> 40 two millions -> 40 billions

Or am I wrong

vellu · Post by **vellu** » 15 Jan 2006, 12:29

It depends if your in the states, or somewhere else:

Number of zeros/U.S. & scientific community/Other countries
3/thousand/thousand
6/million/million
9/billion/1000 million (1 milliard)
12/trillion/billion
15/quadrillion/1000 billion
18/quintillion/trillion

The system used in the U.S. is not as logical as that used in other countries (like Great Britain, France, and Germany). In these other countries, a billion (bi meaning two) has twice as many zeros as a million, and a trillion (tri meaning three) has three times as many zeros as a million, etc. But the scientific community seems to use the American system.

bashderq · Post by **bashderq** » 16 Jan 2006, 01:53

http://web.archive.org/web/199610310506 ... //www.com/ - where it all apparently started.

Btw,

Please note that the absence of fancy graphics from this page is intentional. We can make them as well as the next folks, but this page is intended to serve as a jumping-off-place for many users on slow (14.4K) links, and we want it to be speedy for them as well.

Broadband must have been an impossible dream back then

master m · Post by **master m** » 17 Jan 2006, 17:34

bashderq wrote:http://web.archive.org/web/199610310506 ... //www.com/ - where it all apparently started.

Btw,
Please note that the absence of fancy graphics from this page is intentional. We can make them as well as the next folks, but this page is intended to serve as a jumping-off-place for many users on slow (14.4K) links, and we want it to be speedy for them as well.
Broadband must have been an impossible dream back then

I didn't know http://www.com even existed

vellu · Post by **vellu** » 17 Jan 2006, 17:49

master m wrote:I didn't know http://www.com even existed

Heh, us Finns also have http://www.fi which was registered way back in the day when they didn't restrict domains as they do now. It's actually a pretty decent portal/search page for Finnish users.

Harpal Hoonjan · Post by **Harpal Hoonjan** » 14 Mar 2006, 02:57

Man...that's really shocking to see those old web layouts. It really puts the perspective on how drasticlly this site changed...makes me think what this site will look like in the next 4 years...

AngelSiN · Post by **AngelSiN** » 14 Mar 2006, 20:00

Thats just... amazing!