How to know a website look like in the past

If you are a blogger or web developer this post is for you because you will love the tool which I am going to share with you. Ever want to know how a website looks like in the past. But wait, why I would want to know the past template because we will find out how it evolve and grow. How it came to position it today stand.

And for a web developers perspective, you can gain insightful knowledge about the template to and enable you to make better templates in future.

You can also learn the type of contend, style of writing, see they used in the past which will be an excellent case study for us. So without much ado let get down to know

Tool for looking in the past of internet

There is a website called archive.org which collects and index data from all over the world and collects it for all the website.

They run a tool called way back machine. It is a non-profit organization. Which we can called a digital library. It will show how many time the website is crawled by date and you can navigate to any date with ease and see how the website looks like back then.

It also comes with Alexa toolbar as you can see in picture below.

So let’s know how to use it step by step

Step1 – first of all head over to archive.org

Step 2 – after the website open type in the search box the name of the website which you want to look for.

Step 3 – click on the year of which you want to see and click the date when it gets crawled.

if you can see the design of the website of that particular time.

Final thoughts

I hope you like this handy tool for returning to the past on internet. Thanks.