After a recent email from a competing company who was interested in outsourcing some application work to Plexus, I was purusing their site and came across their portfolio of work. I clicked on a site that was still under construction. I noticed, according to my PageRank on Google Toolbar - a tool that ranks sites based on link popularity and search query relevance - that the site was ranked as 3/10. Weird for a brand new site, so I thought it must be a redesigned site on an older domain.

Buck told me about archive.org where you can type in a domain and it brings up the past versions of Web sites. It's a really cool tool that lets you go back in time and see what sites used to looked like.

Take Plexus, for example. Our newest site was launched almost a year ago but before that, there were several previous variations. If you type www.plexusweb.com in, it will display all of the former looks.

This is the Plexus site from February 2003, a far cry from our current site that is stocked with content management tools and database components that allow us to easily and effectively update and add to our site.

Now check out Google's site in 1998!

Visit archive.org and check out the history of your site or a site you visit frequently to see the changes through time.