Thursday, August 13, 2009

The Wayback Machine

Have you ever visited the Wayback Machine? It's a site that archives snapshots of home pages back into the mid-1990s. Let's have a bit of fun looking at a few websites way back when, shall we? (Click on the images for full-screen views.)

Gazette.net, 12/27/96


The more things change, the more they stay the same...

MCDCC.org, 5/30/00


It was not that long ago that MoCo only had 5 Democratic Senators and 16 Democratic Delegates. The Dems have come a long way since then.

Drudgereport.com, 12/28/98


Remember the good old days when we impeached Presidents for lying? And we mocked the people who proposed doing that to George W. Bush.

RealClearPolitics.com, 8/16/00


Remember when Joe Lieberman was a Democrat? I mean, not just a guy with a "D" or an "I-D" next to his name?

CNN.com, 11/9/00


Ah yes, this is when we were showing the rest of the world what true democracy looks like...

GeorgeWBush.com, 11/26/00


Did you send in your contribution?

NationalEnquirer.com, 4/17/99


I just love that Monica headline! The vampire writer selling her underwear probably deserves her own blog post...

SarahPalin.com, 4/12/06


That's right, people, four months before her gubernatorial primary against Frank Murkowski, Sarah Palin had no website! Who could have predicted that?