Google Search Time Capsule From 2001

by Scott Beale on September 30, 2008 · 4 comments

Google 2001

To celebrate their 10th Anniversary, Google has temporarily restored their oldest search index from January 2001. Here’s the search results for “Laughing Squid”.

Thanks to Spacemonkey for the tip!

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1 adamjackson October 1, 2008 at 12:34 am

Wow. That's super cool!

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2 PIXOLID October 1, 2008 at 9:38 am

Scott, did you keep archived versions of this site? If so, you should put them up! =)

I've been “saving” old versions of my site since the 90s:

http://www.alexis-barrera.com/bio.html

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3 Scott Beale October 1, 2008 at 10:07 am

I've been archiving the site, but those are archives are not online, so for now the Wayback Machine is the best way to see old versions.

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4 PIXOLID October 1, 2008 at 11:08 am

Yeah, I guess that works though sometimes they seem to miss whole chunks of history and pretty arbitrarily at that.

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