Ask HN: Evolution of websites over time

3 points by jsegura 9 years ago | 3 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?

GrumpyNl 9 years ago |

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

davidpelayo 9 years 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.

jsegura 9 years ago | |

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