If you’re up for a deep-drive today, Wayback Machine has you afternoon planned out for you. As an internet archive, the website backlogs previous designs of almost any website you can think of, effectively giving you an evolutionary timeline of the internet. It’s flooring to see how far we have come. At the risk of dating myself, my first favorite website that I can recall was Yahooligans.com – a search engine for kids that was packed full of fun games and bright colors. It looks just as I remember it did in 1999. As I stare at the page, watching the text dance with pixelation and squinting to read the icons, it’s easy for me to see how we have refined web design and created such a lovingly user-centric craft.
