{"id":14604,"date":"2011-01-26T16:09:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=14604"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:05:26","slug":"wayback-machine-releases-a-new-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wayback-machine-releases-a-new-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayback Machine releases a new interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there any way to know how Google, Microsoft, Apple or your own website looked like a few years ago? The answer is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/web\/web.php\"><strong>Wayback Machine<\/strong><\/a>, a kind of online time machine that works like an archive for the Web, storing snapshots of websites since 1996 up until now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14606\" title=\"Wayback Machine\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/01\/wayback03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/01\/wayback03.jpg 500w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/01\/wayback03-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wayback Machine is a lot of fun to browse, but the interface is a bit off-putting. It displays all available snapshots, organized by years, in an almost endless side-scrolling table. Well, that was until now. The unofficial Internet archive <a href=\"http:\/\/waybackmachine.org\/\"><strong>has just released a new version<\/strong><\/a> with a much better-looking interface. Results are now displayed in a calendar that fits your screen just right and is much easier to browse.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14607\" title=\"Wayback Machine\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/01\/wayback01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/01\/wayback01.jpg 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/01\/wayback01-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Old design<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14608\" title=\"Wayback Machine\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/01\/wayback02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/01\/wayback02.jpg 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/01\/wayback02-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>New design<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Simply select the year you want to check and hover the mouse over the exact day you&#8217;d like to see. The bigger the blue circle, the more snapshots you&#8217;ll find available in a floating window for that specific date.<\/p>\n<p>The new design is still at a beta stage, so you may find the odd bug. In any case, it&#8217;s good news for those of us who sometimes like to take a look at the past &#8211; even if it&#8217;s just websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there any way to know how Google, Microsoft, Apple or your own website looked like a few years ago? The answer is Wayback Machine, a kind of online time machine that works like an archive for the Web, storing snapshots of websites since 1996 up until now. Wayback Machine is a lot of fun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wayback-machine-releases-a-new-interface\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wayback Machine releases a new interface&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-14604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334473,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604\/revisions\/334473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14604"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=14604"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=14604"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=14604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}