I Love The Internet Wayback Machine

[21C]

hxxp://www.archive.org/web/web.php

I've been using the site for some time when I wanted to find something from the past but it never fails to amuse/amaze me. It is great to look up a site to see what it was like 2 years or 5 years ago.

I was using it to help me locate coach changes in the NFL from the last 10 years so I could come up with a "Coach Gets Fired" formula ( still a work in progress ) and, once I found one link, I found myself branching off to look at other links.

Here are a couple of fun links ( not all of the links from each page are "live" since not everything is archived )
FOFC ( Oct 2000 )
hxxp://web.archive.org/web/20001110145100/www.sportplanet.com/fof/

Yahoo ( Oct 96 )
hxxp://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/

OOTP ( Oct 99 )
hxxp://web.archive.org/web/19991013073841/http://ootp.net/

FBB ( Jun 01 )
hxxp://web.archive.org/web/20010628063410/www.sportplanet.com/fbb/

Try some yourself.

[DaddyTorgo]

haha. I had forgotten how lame sites like yahoo looked back in 1996. It's actually quite...remarkable how far things have come.

[MikeVic]

This is cool. :D

[Bomber]

http://web.archive.org/web/19991130165319/http://www.frontofficefootball.com/

[Franklinnoble]

http://web.archive.org/web/19991130165319/http://www.frontofficefootball.com/

I miss the old easter eggs...

[Cringer]

http://web.archive.org/web/19981212013850/espn.sportszone.com/

[DaddyTorgo]

http://web.archive.org/web/19970602072106/http://www.wwf.com/

[sovereignstar]

Nice find.

I remember that OOTP page way back then. I think there was like 10 or 15 guys that browsed the boards then. Things have changed.

[Cringer]

Things have changed.

They have? oh p00p, when?!?!?!1111
;)

[sovereignstar]

http://web.archive.org/web/20000816070732/www.puresim.com/desnotes.asp
http://web.archive.org/web/19961219234100/http://www.sierra.com/

Ahh this was a nice site when it EXISTED!
http://web.archive.org/web/20040222024806/www.explodinghouse.com/FOF/GUfof2004.htm
;)

http://web.archive.org/web/19991011053309/http://www.shotsports.com/

http://web.archive.org/web/20010818012406/earth.vol.com/~kammrud/bbpro.htm

[sovereignstar]

Good one here:

http://web.archive.org/web/19980502040303/http://google.stanford.edu/

[sovereignstar]

How's Franchise Baseball coming along, CraigSca?
http://web.archive.org/web/20000819201831/http://www.franchisebaseball.com/develo2.jpg
http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/%7Efof/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

http://web.archive.org/web/20000819201831/www.franchisebaseball.com/developer.htm

[sovereignstar]

http://web.archive.org/web/20001017175356/http://bihockey.ga-sports.com/images/bihlogo.jpg

Black Ice Hockey
http://web.archive.org/web/20001017175356/bihockey.ga-sports.com/

[sovereignstar]

Well, it's official. I just jizzed in my pants. I just found my old St. Cloud State Ultimate Frisbee Team's Website.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010516203731/condor.stcloudstate.edu/~frisbee/

*weeps*

[JeeberD]

http://web.archive.org/web/19981212013850/espn.sportszone.com/

Gotta love this link...

"Mariners reportedly make Griffey, Rodriguez big offers"

Guess it didn't work out so well for the M's, eh?

This one probably doesn't mean much to anyone but SI, Shorty, and myself:
http://web.archive.org/web/19980113194253/http://www.clutchcity.com/

[Buccaneer]

haha. I had forgotten how lame sites like yahoo looked back in 1996. It's actually quite...remarkable how far things have come.
I disagree (so what else is new?). Major sites today are so cluttered with useless, bandwidth hogging crap that it becomes unvisitable. The worse is ESPN by far. Solecismic still understands that getting to the content simply is best.

[sterlingice]

This one probably doesn't mean much to anyone but SI, Shorty, and myself:
http://web.archive.org/web/19980113194253/http://www.clutchcity.com/
I can't get it to load but I'm sure it's beautiful *teardrop*

SI

[Franklinnoble]

I disagree (so what else is new?). Major sites today are so cluttered with useless, bandwidth hogging crap that it becomes unvisitable. The worse is ESPN by far. Solecismic still understands that getting to the content simply is best.

What he said.

Simple, non-flashy websites are the best.

[kcchief19]

I miss the days when the joke answer on polls on FOFC didn't involve a trout in the rectum.

[Logan]

Early moments of 9/11/01...
http://web.archive.org/web/20010911061337/http://www.yahoo.com/

Probably only hours later...
http://web.archive.org/web/20010911205959/http://www.yahoo.com/

[MizzouRah]

http://web.archive.org/web/20000816070732/www.puresim.com/desnotes.asp
http://web.archive.org/web/19961219234100/http://www.sierra.com/

Ahh this was a nice site when it EXISTED!
http://web.archive.org/web/20040222024806/www.explodinghouse.com/FOF/GUfof2004.htm
;)

http://web.archive.org/web/19991011053309/http://www.shotsports.com/

http://web.archive.org/web/20010818012406/earth.vol.com/~kammrud/bbpro.htm

Oh my, the days of FPS FB 97. I loved that game.

[Router Help]

Everyone remember Morgado's Journal?

http://web.archive.org/web/20010417130258/www.geocities.com/bobkemp01/journal.htm

[sovereignstar]

Everyone remember Morgado's Journal?

http://web.archive.org/web/20010417130258/www.geocities.com/bobkemp01/journal.htm
http://sovereignstar.com/FOFJournal/

Just barely.
http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/%7Efof/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Router Help]

Nice! :D

[QuikSand]

Thanks for re-posting your archive link, sov -- a nice little trip down memory lane for me. There's some really good stuff there. *sniff*

[MJ4H]

This is just plain awesome: the old dolphin hockey league I used to commission:

http://web.archive.org/web/19990429151536/comp.uark.edu/~pwatts/ihlhome.htm

[MikeVic]

Can you do actual searches? I'd like to find pages for some of the old leagues I was in.. but no way I have those bookmarked.

[Buccaneer]

Is it possible to get to a particular page on the Sideline forum?

[CraigSca]

How's Franchise Baseball coming along, CraigSca?
http://web.archive.org/web/20000819201831/http://www.franchisebaseball.com/develo2.jpg
http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/%7Efof/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

http://web.archive.org/web/20000819201831/www.franchisebaseball.com/developer.htm
Oh shush! :D

Still sitting there...half completed...in various forms...on my hard drive. Sigh.

[21C]

Solecismic.com ( Dec 98 )
http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230349/http://www.solecismic.com/

And Craig, I think I still have that video tour of Franchise Baseball somewhere on my old computer.

[vtbub]

Wow pushing the envelope requiring a 75 mhz pentium processor.

[MizzouRah]

Oh shush! :D

Still sitting there...half completed...in various forms...on my hard drive. Sigh.

You crushed my dreams Craig! I'm still waiting for a release date. :)


Todd

[Bearcat729]

Wow pushing the envelope requiring a 75 mhz pentium processor.



Nifty that means I can run it on the computer I have upstairs.

[KevinNU7]

This is awesome

[azjoe_02]

How about Nike.com:


http://web.archive.org/web/19980713011442/http://nike.com/

[JeeberD]

Prodigy.com (The ISP my parents have been using since '96 or so)

http://web.archive.org/web/19961022175410/http://www.prodigy.com/

AOL.com

http://web.archive.org/web/19970625234511/http://www.aol.com/

Netscape.com

http://web.archive.org/web/19961020015116/http://www3.netscape.com/

Microsoft.com

http://web.archive.org/web/19961020014044/http://www.microsoft.com/

Playboy.com

hxxp://web.archive.org/web/19961220001705/http://www1.playboy.com/

[Franklinnoble]

Is Prodigy still in business???

[Franklinnoble]

dola... looks like the page redirects to SBC Yahoo now.

[sterlingice]

Prodigy got bought out a long time ago. I forgot by who, tho. Just as Compuserve got bought out by AOL, iirc, when the business started compressing.

SI

[JeeberD]

Well, my parents still have a Prodigy.net e-mail addy...

[Suicane75]

I miss the days of web based chat rooms, searching 100 sites for good free nudie pics, and waiting 2 hours to download a swank wav file of Homer Simpson to use in your sound scheme.