The South PacificBoard

Aina Kuokoa wrote:

I will keep pretending that I know what that is, too.

https://wayback-api.archive.org/
Thats the machine.

"The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001, it allows the user to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past. Its founders, Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, developed the Wayback Machine to provide "universal access to all knowledge" by preserving archived copies of defunct web pages.[1]"

-Wikipedia

Inner Albania wrote:

What is this link?

It shows you how the internet looked like in the past, for example

This is what the world page on NS looked like between 2005 and 2024, and in every date there is a snapshot of photos
https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.nationstates.net/page=world

Ammmericaaaa wrote:

It shows you how the internet looked like in the past, for example

This is what the world page on NS looked like between 2005 and 2024, and in every date there is a snapshot of photos
https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.nationstates.net/page=world

Another fun thing is to see the long lost rmb posts (ie, pre curly's post on the first page of the saved RMB in 2011. news post reference: page=news/2011/02/28/index.html). https://web.archive.org/web/20080522030738/https://www.nationstates.net/region=the_south_pacific is the oldest one that seems to be saved.

Ammmericaaaa wrote:

It shows you how the internet looked like in the past, for example

This is what the world page on NS looked like between 2005 and 2024, and in every date there is a snapshot of photos
https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.nationstates.net/page=world

Bro did they even use CSS in the old NS websites 😭😭😭