Loving the way back machine

It's no secret that I've been trying to update my portfolio lately.

The thing is, it's tricky to find something you wrote back in say, 2001, given all the comings and goings of dotcoms over the past ten years. That's the real reason why we love the way back machine... you can find all those long lost nuggets you worked so hard on before they crashed and burned.

I almost got weepy revisiting old sites like this one... Leisureplanet... ahhh... old friend. You coulda been a contender, except you mysteriously burned through $25 million before you attracted any users.

Checking out what the web used to be is like perusing old baby pictures. Sites we knew and loved looked so awkward before they grew up and found boyfriends with fast cars.

Check out:
Google from 1998
CNN, June 2000
Hotmail, 1998
Yahoo! ...way back in 1996
Netscape, 1996 (so self assured!)
Travelocity, also from 1996