i'm probably one of the last people to discover this, as usual, but i found this website, http://web.archive.org, that took screen shots of different websites throughout the years in their different developmental stages. in other words, if i wanted to remember what livejournal looked like back in 1999 when i actually had a livejournal account, a click of the mouse and voila. i'm disgusted and enthralled.
some of my favorite archived pages:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981212020756/rock.yahoo.com/
early yahoo music, you'd type in a band name and 50 similar artists would pop up. i owe all of my knowledge of bands as a child to this tool.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815052956/geocities.yahoo.com/home/
geocities! learning how to use hmtl! sparkly backgrounds and lime green italicized times new roman font! page counters!
http://web.archive.org/web/19981207055015/http://www.mirc.com/
irc chatting at its finest. pinging, slapping with trouts, trivia chat rooms, ops (@) and voices (+), scripts, winnuking! i'll always remember my favorite server was jade.va.us.dal.net
http://web.archive.org/web/19970218072527/http://www.gap.com/
the gap was my favorite store as a 12 year old. i think i like this link purely because it reminds you how disgusting gap's logo used to be. i particular remember that white tag with boring black font in all my khaki pants.
if you don't mind the occasional broken image link and feel like a trip down memory lane, i highly suggest taking a look at this awesomely nostalgic website.
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