Ask HN: Evolution of websites over time

3 pointsjsegura8y ago3 comments

I’ve always been quite curious on see how sites evolve. I still remember how Yahoo looked like few years ago and it’s super different on how looks like now.

I’m pretty curious to know if I’m the only one who does this kind of things?

Do you think it would be useful to see the history (in snapshots) of a certain webpage to see how it evolved over time? If you don’t know any solution that does it, how do you imagine it?

3 comments

GrumpyNl8y ago

https://archive.org/web/ is your answer

davidpelayo8y ago

Archive it's not that visual. You go navigating through cached pages. Instead, I think he refers more to how to visually compare two different snapshots of a certain website. Put a number where it says "two" -> any number.

Imagine a image slideshow of photos you go having a glance at, but with most important snapshots of a certain media, say nyt.com.

I think it's an interesting tool.

jseguraOP8y ago

Not exactly, I would like to see it on the same page.

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