Handy Tips: How to View an Older Version of Any Website

In Handy Tips, we find ways to improve your life and make it easier and explain why these tips work. Today, we will tell you how to browse older versions of websites to see how they appeared in the past.


If you are suddenly caught up in nostalgia, but you have already looked at your old childhood photos, you can see how the Internet looked like when you were younger. But online information is not paper. Site creators do not hand over older versions to special libraries. And yet, a kind of such a library exists, and its helper, the web crawler, has been surfing the Internet for many years, collecting various versions of billions of webpages.

Internet Archive

Just type in the address of the site you want to see and select the available date. But the charm of the Internet library does not end there. For example, there is a large collection of ancient MS-DOS computer games that will run right in the browser. And if you've played enough, go watch the classics of American noir films.